I just did a video of this 1981-3 Japanese Sumo Wrestling Playing Trump Card Set over on my YouTube channel, but wanted to highlight a few m...

Fuji over at The Chronicles of Fuji  sent me a short sumo wrestling video of the popular small wrestler, Enho , taking on his stablemate an...

"Playing Cards" in the United States are known as "Trump Cards" (トランプ　カード) in Japan.  Not getting political here, but Tr...

This is a set I have been eying for a while having missed out on it many years ago.  Another one popped up recently and I quickly snagged it...

Late 1960s sumo cards are virtually non existent.  In fact, it is easier to find sumo cards that were made during World War II than it is to...

In 1980, if you were living in Japan, sumo wrestler Chiyonofuji would have been a household name.  His face was plastered on everything it s...

1984 marked a pivotal year in foreign participation in sumo wrestling....especially for the Hawaiian wrestlers.  Superstar Takamiyama (Jesse...

Everyone knows the feeling of reaching into your winter coat pocket after you put it on the first time during winter and discovering a long-...

Getting back to sumo cards after a few other posts, I picked up these sumo card singles a month or two ago over in Japan.  Normally for thes...

I have a binder of "To-be-checklisted" sumo menko sets.  These are sets I have just acquired and that I have not yet entered nor c...

This is one set I've had my eye on for quite sometime.....probably 3-4 years or so. The same auction would always come up and it never s...

From the mid 1970s all the way until 1997, the only cards produced of sumo wrestlers were playing cards, or trump cards as they are called i...

1962 Osato Famous Stars Trump G622    This is a set I have seen several times in the past few decades, but only recently did I pick u...