Sumo Art

[Akinomaki]

Another sumo artist is Hiroyuki Kimura (no gyoji). He's the one who painted for the sumo room in the park hotel.



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



posters from his exhibitions are here: http://hiroyuki-kimura.com/news.html

Edited January 26, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

Caricature artist Takayuki Watanabe is also into face divination - he has analyzed Kotoshogiku's face, but the only interesting part on this page is the caricature portrait of Kotoshogiku.
http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/column/kaouranai/news/1598166.html

[Akinomaki]

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



just enough for a yokozuna dohyo-iri

the ordinary type (I call that the deluxe one: 7 more rikishi, gyoji and yobidashi) http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32213624

also a gumbai choko http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32216334

and at last the real sumo art chocolate http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=32215685

of course in the appropriate box - I think I found something to look for at my next trip in May

other type of sumo confectionery and food: http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?mode=cate&cbid=810086&csid=0

Edited January 30, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Jakusotsu]

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

[Naganoyama]

Looks great. Too good to eat?

Edit: too slow!

Edited January 31, 2016 by Naganoyama

[egparis18]

I'd ruthlessly scoff the lot.

I'd eat a chocolate Hakuho.

I'd eat a chocolate dohjo.

[Naganoyama]

How does Japanese chocolate compare with European or American chocolate?

[egparis18]

How does Japanese chocolate compare with European or American chocolate?

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

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.

Edited January 31, 2016 by egparis18

[egparis18]

Photography

Daniel Ali http://www.danielali.co.uk/sumo-school-photography

More than 30 images. Adolescents at a sumo school. Sober and sensitive. Very good.

Edited January 31, 2016 by egparis18

[Akinomaki]

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

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

Edited February 1, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

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

Edited February 2, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

The Sapporo snow festival has a statue of Kitanoumi this year

making of

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

Edited February 5, 2016 by Akinomaki

[egparis18]

If this isn't art, it'll do until art comes along.

I hope you all agree.

I'm biased, as we all know.

[Akinomaki]

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

Edited February 12, 2016 by Akinomaki

[egparis18]

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

I want some.

[orandashoho]

I don't have a bath but I want some too!

[Akinomaki]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edited February 12, 2016 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

The new Kotoshogiku T-shirt http://shop.kokugikan.jp/?pid=98038078

back

[orandashoho]

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

[wuli]

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

and how

[Akinomaki]

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.

Edited February 13, 2016 by Akinomaki

[egparis18]

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.

Edited February 13, 2016 by egparis18

[Akinomaki]

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.

[egparis18]

Here's a netsuke. Three more views here http://www.furnishyourcastle.com/fr/index.php?idprod=3525

Enjoy

Edited February 14, 2016 by egparis18

[egparis18]

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/

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.

Edited February 22, 2016 by egparis18