No. 4 · Long painting

Hitori-zumo

Zoia Skoropadenko

Medium

Japanese ink on Ozu washi paper

Size

32 × 150 cm

Seal

Original, stamped with the artist’s seal

Price

¥350,000

Availability

Available

Two figures face each other in the ring at the foot of the sheet: one in a long patterned robe, the other a wrestler leaning into a pushing pose. Behind them a row of tall vertical strokes, like a colonnade, rises toward a band of dark dots. The upper half of the paper is left bare.

Hitori-zumo, or “solo sumo”, is a ritual at Ōyamazumi Shrine on Ōmishima in Ehime, in which a wrestler contends with an unseen rice spirit.

Enquire about this work

Email Zoia Skoropadenko Studio (zoia.skoropadenko@gmail.com) about “Hitori-zumo”, No. 4.

The exhibition SUMO: The sacred spirit is at Pasona Group Annex Aoyama, 3-1-26 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 12–18 October 2026, 11:00–18:00, admission free. See the visit details.