Calling all Sumo Wrestling Fans

As I slowly whittle down the want list on my main menko, bromide, and mini card collection, I have branched out into the other sumo card categories with the main one being telephone cards.  The cliché Perfect Storm happened in the 1990s in Japan with the rise in popularity of both sumo wrestling and collecting telephone cards.  Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of telephone cards were printed with the popular wrestlers of the time.  And the majority of the subjects on sumo wrestling telephone cards were of the extremely popular brothers: Takanohana and Wakanohana.  These dashing and talented guys pulled sumo wrestling into the new millennium and were rewarded with all sorts of memorabilia.  This particular set, produced by the Nihon Sumo Kyokai, captures these two along with the first foreign-born Yokozuna, Akebono.  The pre-cell phone days meant people had to use telephone cards in public pay phones and so these cards were not only collectible, but utilitarian as well.