I wanted to mention that commenter Ryan Laughton has started a blog about Japanese sumo cards. There are a lot of parallels between vintage sumo cards and vintage baseball cards in Japan so I expect that this will be a useful reference in understanding how the older cards were produced and distributed. Ryan's already contributed interesting comments here about Yamakatsu and NST among other things so I look forward to seeing what he'll be coming up with at his blog.
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