If you are a fan of world-renowned artist Takashi Murakami and the Los Angeles Dodgers, you’ll want to get your hands on the Japanese Heritage Night capsule collection before it sells out. You can buy the Japanese Heritage Night capsule collection on Fanatics here. The collection fuses Murakami’s iconic art with LA’s baseball heritage and features a limited run of apparel, including t-shirts and a hoodie. To commemorate the launch, Murakami will throw out the celebratory first pitch at the Dodgers’ Japanese Heritage Night game against the Miami Marlins on Monday. This is the second collaboration between Murakami and the Dodgers. The first, honoring the MLB Tokyo Series, sold out within an hour. “The reaction [to my first capsule collection] in Japan was the biggest I’ve ever experienced, and it made me realize anew how important Shohei Ohtani and baseball are to Japanese people, which made my heart fill up with excitement,” Murakami told The Hollywood Reporter. “When I was a child, baseball was the king of sports, but by the time I graduated from college, people’s interest had shifted to soccer, and recently, people were even saying that maybe baseball was a thing of the past. But since Shohei Ohtani went to the Major Leagues, there has been a huge resurgence of interest, and it feels like my childhood has come back. It makes me very happy.” Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting us with a subscription.