Sumō at the Kinryūzan Sensōji Temple (Kinryūzan Sensōji sumō no zu)

This early-Meiji ōban color woodblock [triptych](/glossary/triptych) by Utagawa Kuniteru II, held by the Edo-Tokyo Museum (accession 0194200521), depicts a sumō tournament at the Kinryūzan Sensōji Temple — the great Buddhist complex at Asakusa whose mountain name is Kinryūzan, the 'Golden Dragon Mountain.' Sensōji had served from the seventeenth century as one of the principal venues for organized professional sumō in Edo, alongside the Tomioka Hachimangū at Fukagawa and, from 1833 onward, the Eko-in temple in Ryōgoku that became the formal home of the Tokyo sumō tournaments.