Sumo goods

[sumojoann 1,226]

3 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

That is not a shirt but a clear file and poster. T-shirts are with T., the 3 Os and this one

plus the plain ones

Too bad, they would have been great t-shirt designs.

[Yarimotsu 381]

Do you have to buy a ticket to access the merch sold at the kokugikan? Or is it 'outside the gates'?

[Seiyashi 3,912]

5 hours ago, Yarimotsu said:

Do you have to buy a ticket to access the merch sold at the kokugikan? Or is it 'outside the gates'?

When a honbasho is on, should be yes - same as the Sumo Museum. 

[sumojoann 1,226]

All the merch is inside the Kokogikan, nothing outside, so yes, you have to buy a ticket.

[sumojoann 1,226]

https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/shopping/ryogoku-takahashi

I don't know if this shop, Ryogoku Takahashi, still exists, but if it does, it has a bigger selection of sumo merch than the Kokugikan!  The article in the link above is from 2016 but it does have the tel # for the shop.  They don't ship online as far as I know (and the Japanese postal service has a lot of restrictions as to what can be shipped internationally -- at least to the US).  However, if you get to Tokyo, definitely check out this shop.  I went crazy when I went there in Sept 2014.

**** EDIT **** Many items, like certain t-shirts, are only available at the Kokugikan.

Edited September 16, 2022 by sumojoann

[sumojoann 1,226]

https://shop.kokugikan.jp/

I've had this link to the Kokugikan shop for a long time, but I don't know if they ship internationally.  **** EDIT TO ADD -- They've never shipped internationally in the past so I doubt they are going to do it now.  However, that might change in the future.  You never know. **** (end of edit).  The site is all in Japanese which I can't read.  Even if they do ship, it's probably only to addresses in Japan.  As I mentioned above, the Japanese postal service has a lot of restrictions as to what they will ship internationally -- at least to the US.  If you're able to read this link, and if it indicates they will ship to addresses in Japan, I have a friend in Japan who will take orders and ship them internationally.  A lot of "ifs" and "buts".  At one point, the Kokugikan shop wasn't shipping at all.  Then there's the question of what the Japanese postal service will allow.  Recently, my friend sent me a bunch of sumo programs he had been saving up for me.  At that time, he could ship "flat" packages that didn't weigh very much to the US, but couldn't ship boxes.  I don't know if that has changed.  The shipping rules seem to always be changing, just like the travel restrictions.

**** EDIT **** My friend is attending the Basho TODAY (Day 7).  If there's anything you want him to buy for you, let me know immediately!!  I'm not sure I can get in touch with him since he's taking the train to Tokyo, but I can try.

Edited September 16, 2022 by sumojoann

[Seiyashi 3,912]

25 minutes ago, sumojoann said:

but I don't know if they ship internationally

No mention of that. As far as I can tell (with a bit of assistance from Edge's inbuilt translation widget) it talks only about delivery by local courier companies. I wouldn't be surprised if they just simply didn't envisage that there would be international demand for sumo goods, and hence never bothered to include international shipping options; hopefully this is something they get round to revising, now that they are at least officially aware of the foreign sumo market if Sumo Prime Time is anything to go by.

Edited September 16, 2022 by Seiyashi

[sumojoann 1,226]

3 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

No mention of that. As far as I can tell (with a bit of assistance from Edge's inbuilt translation widget) it talks only about delivery by local courier companies. I wouldn't be surprised if they just simply didn't envisage that there would be international demand for sumo goods, and hence never bothered to include international shipping options; hopefully this is something they get round to revising, now that they are at least officially aware of the foreign sumo market if Sumo Prime Time is anything to go by,

I should have added that I doubted if they would ship internationally since they've never done it before.  I've always had to order goods through my friend in Japan, and it seems like at some point, they weren't even shipping domestically.  And at times, the shop was just closed (except during a basho).

[sumojoann 1,226]

ATTENTION ALL ----- My friend in Japan is attending the basho TODAY (Day 7).  If there's anything you want him to buy for you, let me know immediately!!  I'm not sure if I can get in touch with him since he's taking the train to Tokyo, but I can try.  There may be a problem with what the Japanese postal service will allow him to ship, so if you want anything, please tell me what country you're in and hopefully he can let me know if he can ship it to you.  He charges a 20% commission on the total purchase price, including the shipping cost.  Recently, the Japanese postal service required that packages to the US had to be "flat" (no boxes), couldn't weigh very much and had to be shipped EMS (Express), which is expensive.  He was able to ship cheaper by using Japan's "takkubin" shipping service.  Shipping to other countries might have different rules.

****EDIT TO ADD ----- My friend has responded and will accept orders if they aren't too expensive.  He didn't give me a cut-off time to place orders, but since Makuuchi starts at 4:00 PM Japan Time, I think probably 3:00 PM Japan Time would be okay.  FYI -- My friend is honest and reliable, I've known him for years, so you can order with confidence.  He will send you a Paypal invoice.

 

Edited September 16, 2022 by sumojoann

[Seiyashi 3,912]

Some oyakata merch: the NSK is selling ema - blocks of cypress traditionally used to write prayers/wishes and hung in shrine precincts. These are printed with the faces of the 104 oyakata of the NSK, including their kabu and their active shikona. And yes, this includes Kaisei, although his just seems to have been a head shot of his formal rikishi photo.

In typical Japanese fashion, this is a gacha, so the various oyakata appear to be assigned into rarity tiers based on their highest rank while active. All former yokozuna are in the highest rarity tier, for instance, and all former ōzeki one tier below. (It just so happens that this is also a great pictorial look to roughly see how many ex-oyakata ranked sekiwake, ōzeki, or yokozuna; the komusubi are lumped in with the maegashira and the rare ex-jūryōs.)

The joke comes with the "bad luck" and "super bad luck" tiers, which are occupied by the oyakata channel hosts Otowayama, Iwatomo, Shiranui, and Onogawa (super bad luck): instead of a nice formal photo, these four are pulling funny faces on their ema.

These were up for grabs during the basho, and apparently were popular enough that they sold out once and the NSK had to announce it being restocked over Twitter. I hope this becomes a regular item because this is one gacha I'd spend the hell out of.

Edited September 20, 2022 by Seiyashi

[Akinomaki 37,453]

A bit late - the e(picture)-banzuke for Kyushu 22

[Akinomaki 37,453]

Rikishi taking a bath in a teacup - rikishi teabags new from the fan appreciation event, also on sale at the basho

he might need a nice hot relaxing bath (mistaken for Takakeisho: o)

[Akinomaki 37,453]

The picture banzuke for Hatsu 2023

[Jakusotsu 5,294]

Hoshoryu's incessantly breaking the fourth wall still freaks me out.

[Akinomaki 37,453]

The picture banzuke for Haru 2023

[Akinomaki 37,453]

New t-shirts from Be At Tokyo with 8 rikishi in total on sale during the basho, in Harajuku and close to the venue in Osaka https://be-at-tokyo.com/projects/event/11950/

Recently they made a Bakidou collection in cooperation with the NSK and Abema - Hoshoryu Baki style https://be-at-tokyo.com/projects/event/11252/

A golden gumbai on sale for 55.66 million yen at the gold exhibition at Takashimaya, Osaka

o

Edited March 10 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 37,453]

Hoshoryu original for PR for a new shop with Tokyo Unite goods, including NSK goods https://www.dot-st.com/nikoand/disp/itemlist/?dispNo=002030071012

https://www.sumo.or.jp/IrohaKyokaiInformation/detail?id=593

Edited March 10 by Akinomaki

[Tsuchinoninjin 1,151]

The amount of goods offered on SuMALL now stretch to 15 pages, and new items are released in the sumo fan club all the time (including fishing pails) so its not possible to cover everything here.

However, a gold coin commemorating Kiribayama's yusho is released for 240,000 Yen, which I don't remember happening before.

 

[Akinomaki 37,453]

Nice new goods item: a reversible tote bag with a banzuke style list of the yokozuna & ozeki of all times, that banzuke is sold on the sumo fanclub site. The bag is a cooperation of El Zion inc. and the NSK, on sale at the official NSK SuMALL site and at the Natsu basho. http://hobby.dengeki.com/news/1898831/

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Edited April 12 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 37,453]

The picture banzuke for Natsu 2023 - the unprecedented 3rd basho in a row with only 2 Y/O

Edited May 13 by Akinomaki

[Sakura 1,341]

 

5 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

The picture banzuke for Natsu 2023 - the unprecedented 3rd basho in a row with only 2 Y/O

That looks like Haru

[Akinomaki 37,453]

11 hours ago, Sakura said:

That looks like Haru

Indeed, they haven't posted it on the shop's twitter yet as usual, I took that one because it was bigger without checking the date - no new post for over 2 months there. The shop site now has the better pic on the front page, I replaced it in the above post.

[Akinomaki 37,453]

The official NSK SuMALL shop has an Ichinojo intai memorial corner with soon to disappear goods - I bought a fan (uchiwa). I also bought the picture banzuke this time, the last he's on.

A few funny things about this shop:

The kyokai information from April 19th tells that like for the Haru basho, the banzuke won't be sold at the basho, only to be ordered online, with 350 yen shipping costs for the 55yen item and folded to A4 size. But the new goods at the NSK shop include a set of two banzuke, for 110yen, properly rolled. https://www.sumo.or.jp/Watching/guide/tokyo/spectator/617/#goods - I asked an oyakata on duty there and he only said yes they have it - he didn't know about the kyokai information. The shop that used to sell the banzuke doesn't have it anymore. I always buy 2 anyhow.

They sell the basho pamphlet, which has dropped quality compared to 4 years ago and increased in price, from 750 to 1000yen - it was sold at the souvenir shops in the past, but no more. I asked the same oyakata if it would go with a basho poster, like I saw on the sumo shop site from the above kyokai information https://shop.sumo.or.jp/Order/page/tFj81GXT3X - no, it doesn't. It costs 750 to have the pamphlet sent to you and the poster is not something one must have, so I chose to be content without one.

[Obana 287]

I will be attending the opening day of the Nagoya basho with my nephew, his wife & their 9 year old daughter.  My first time attending a basho outside Tokyo, sitting in a masuseki and watching the opening day action.

To enhance my grandniece's experience, I have made an indigo dyed combination banner for shin juryo 獅司 Shishi, first sekitori from Ukraine & the newly named ozeki 霧島 Kirishima.

file under: One of a Kind Sumo Goods.

 

[sumojoann 1,226]

2 hours ago, Obana said:

I will be attending the opening day of the Nagoya basho with my nephew, his wife & their 9 year old daughter.  My first time attending a basho outside Tokyo, sitting in a masuseki and watching the opening day action.

To enhance my grandniece's experience, I have made an indigo dyed combination banner for shin juryo 獅司 Shishi, first sekitori from Ukraine & the newly named ozeki 霧島 Kirishima.

file under: One of a Kind Sumo Goods.

 

It's so unique and very creative --- definitely one of a kind!  It looks like it's a pretty good size, too.  When I watch the live TV broadcast, I will be scanning the crowd looking for it when Kirishima's bout is announced.  Nearby spectators will undoubtedly be admiring it, also.