I was able to finally remove one of my lone sole cards and match it to this new set that I picked up. This is the 1937 Rikishi Left Box 5 set (Catalog # R3711). It has one of Yokozuna Minanogawa's first Yokozuna menko in it and Shinkai's last menko as well. It also contains a rare gyoji card. Each menko measure about 1.0" x 2.25" and has some pretty cool gold gilding on the front. Unfortunately some ambitious kid wrote on the back of them, but it definitely gives them character.
Damn kids and their markers ;)
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