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Another sumo artist is Hiroyuki Kimura (no gyoji). He's the one who painted for the sumo room in the park hotel.
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a mass of his sumo works are on this page http://hiroyuki-kimura.com/works-s.html
he just had an exhibition till today http://www.jomo-news.co.jp/ns/4814537310223485/news.html
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posters from his exhibitions are here: http://hiroyuki-kimura.com/news.html
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Not the usual art of this thread: sumo chocolate (Valentine Day in Japan is coming soon). Sold in the kokugikan (at the danpatsu-shiki today e.g.) or to be ordered from the kokugikan shop site.
http://otakei.otakuma.net/archives/2016013001.html
the deluxe sumo chocolate with very little sumo in it, but a nice box http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=48574113
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just enough for a yokozuna dohyo-iri
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the ordinary type (I call that the deluxe one: 7 more rikishi, gyoji and yobidashi) http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32213624
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also a gumbai choko http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32216334
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and at last the real sumo art chocolate http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32215685
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of course in the appropriate box - I think I found something to look for at my next trip in May
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other type of sumo confectionery and food: http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=810086&csid=0

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I hate it when delicious chocolate is wasted on things never to be eaten.

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Looks great. Too good to eat?

Edit: too slow!

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I'd ruthlessly scoff the lot.

I'd eat a chocolate Hakuho.

I'd eat a chocolate dohjo.

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How does Japanese chocolate compare with European or American chocolate?

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How does Japanese chocolate compare with European or American chocolate?

I've never tasted Japanese chocolate, but get this for French chocolate:

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Nothing to do with sumo of course. Done by Patrick Roger.

http://www.exponaute.com/magazine/2015/10/23/le-musee-rodin-exposera-une-sculpture-en-chocolat-signee-patrick-roger/

Link to his excruciatingly artistic sculpture site http://www.patrickroger.com/sculptures but, intriguingly, his shop site (he's a chocolatier - you don't have to be a museum curator, you can buy a box of chocs from him) has a key to translate into Japanese

(English too) http://boutique.patrickroger.com/ Go there first.

Belgians do chocolate best.

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Another use: New as cover illustration (+info inside) on the 2nd of the Japanese traditional culture series (after kabuki) of the widely used Japonica exercise books (especially for primary school) from Showa-Note - sales start on shonichi, Jan. 10th, in the kokugikan and bookstores.

B5 format

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there are 3 information pages about sumo, 1 each at the start, middle and end.

All illustrations are by Kototsurugi http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/12/16/397

And now a Hakuho version - instead of "sumo" with "69th yokozuna Hakuho" written on the cover

http://www.sankei.com/economy/news/160131/prl1601310007-n1.html

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Picture book author/artist Aki-Bingo-san designed 400 different cats for 400 decorative plates for the event of 400 years of Arita ware. One as gyoji and one as rikishi are among them.
http://www.saga-s.co.jp/news/saga/10105/267443
http://www.arita.jp/news/002343.html
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The Sapporo snow festival has a statue of Kitanoumi this year
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a better pic at the end of this Sankei slide-show that starts with Kotoshogiku's bike pics.



The old mural for the 1964 Olympics of sumo ancestor Nomi-no-Sukune is intended to be used in the new Olympic main stadium as well, to greet the visitors at the entrance
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20160203-OYT1T50164.html
Yomiuri has an English version: http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002727542
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If this isn't art, it'll do until art comes along.

I hope you all agree.

I'm biased, as we all know.

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Not very artistic, but maybe it fits best in here http://wol.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/column/15/101900002/020400008/index.html?SS=zoom&FD=-652795730
Sumo bath-salts:

yorikiri the anger with mint, oshidashi the cold with ginger and chilli and an utchari against dryness with yuzu
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Now that I tried to look for those items I found a whole bunch of others in the Sumou-series from the company "Charley" (English pages available and linked now)

Apparently developed thinking of the sujo/sumo girls. I don't know when they started to sell this though, definitely since September 2014.

the yokozuna set with 2 each of the 3 types of bath-salt http://charley-zzz.com/product/jp/2013/10/sumou.html

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the English page for the 3 types of bath-salt: http://charley-zzz.com/product/en/2013/09/sumou-bath-salt-medical-bath-salt.html

Sumo body soap http://charley-zzz.com/product/jp/2015/09/sumou-2.html pdf: http://charley-zzz.com/product/jp/pdf/sumousoap.pdf

maybe sold since last October, maybe a year earlier

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Sumo (yokozuna) Vaseline http://charley-zzz.com/product/jp/2014/05/sumou-1.html

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And at Tokyu-hands there is another variation (new) on sale:

Hatsu-dohyo - sumo debut https://hands.net/goods/4975541093483/

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Not yet at the kokugikan shop though

Edit: I just saw that Charley has English pages as well and changed the links

With Euro (and likely other local) prices: http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/bowerbird-by-charley/item/71830/?s-id=borderless_recommend_item_en

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Actually these items belong more in a separate topic "sumo merchandise".

and how

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This topic is full of merchandise with sumo art design, some more some less artistic, and the design is rather only to find on the products.

Someone could list up all posts in this topic which fit into the category "sumo merchandise" and all replies to those posts and ask the moderators to create this new topic in this subforum and move all those posts to it.

Then we could fill this new topic also with all the other sumo merchandise with rather no art design.

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There is a 'Sumo Merchandise' thread in 'Ozumo Discussions', started by Irakusamaru, but really about things people want to purchase.

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=34519#entry289714

And a similar one that Akinomaki started, also in 'Ozumo Discussions' called 'Hype and other rikishi goods and news'. This one's got the very same video with Ichi that I just posted, also some stamps, and I did a post here with stamps too.

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=34102

I'd vote that all posts on this thread, including mine that feature merchandising go to the second thread above. Otherwise we just hang loose and adopt an 'all posts within shouting distance of art welcome' policy.

Except for Hello Kitty stuff.

Peace.

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The posts were meant for this subforum, I would prefer to have them in a thread here. The merchandise is mostly unrelated to ozumo discussions, not really with sumo content. Still, the whole art thread could have been in ozumo discussions as well, that subforum has many threads which might rather be in here.

The merchandise posts in the hype rikishi thread were meant to illustrate the hype about the rikishi and are also about the sponsors and the rikishi activities.

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From the French sumo site Dosukoi - the sumo photo museum at Ryogoku, with full details about access, opening hours and so on, and a small photo-gallery. It's in French, but Google Translate does a not-bad job of converting it to English if you need.

http://www.dosukoi.fr/musee-photo-sumo/

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Via the same page or here, you can access this one

https://www.flickr.com/photos/98632131@N04/21977545682/in/album-72157653803191936/

With 20 fine photographs. Example below.

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