Catalog record · 目録番号 125390

Champion Sumo Wrestler Musashi-maru

Artist / 作者: Kinoshita Daimon木下大門
Date / 年代: 1967-1999
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Reiwa / artelino
Digital image / 画像: 560 × 800 px
Published by / 公開者: 朝倉レン

Catalog note / 解説

"Musashimaru Koyo". A champion sumo wrestler Musashi-maru Koyo. Musashimaru was the first non-Japanese champion sumo wrestler in 1999. He came from Hawaii. After some 80 years of absence, the Japan Sumo Association commissioned the making of traditional nishiki-e style woodblock printing to publisher Kyoto Hanga-in and artist Daimon in 1985. These and other new Sumo Nishiki-e are sold in Ryogoku Kokugi-kan in Tokyo.

Image record / 画像情報

Artelino · Late 20th century. · artelino

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