List: sumo
Terms used in sumo, a Japanese full-contact sport.
sumo noun noun (generic)
- Autumn Tournament (held in Tokyo in September)
noun noun (generic) go (game) sumo abbreviation
- laying out (e.g. ground plan, garden), layout
- taking space, obtaining land, gaining territory
- training done in one's own stable
- (police) legwork
ateji sumo noun noun (generic)
- wrestler's ceremonial leg raising and stomping
sumo noun noun (generic)
- black tassel hung above the northwest corner of the ring
historical term noun noun (generic) sumo abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- ancient boys' hairstyle with a part down the middle and a loop above each ear
- Meiji-period women's hairstyle with hair twisted into a knot on top of the head and held in place with a pin
- type of dance in kabuki
- knots in colour of four cardinal points hanging from the roof above the ring
- constricted tagelus (Sinonovacula constricta), Chinese razor clam
sumo noun noun (generic)
- pushing an opponent out with one's body
sumo noun noun (generic)
- variety of beltless arm throw
noun noun (generic) sumo
- sword-bearer (subordinate whose job it is to hold their master's sword)
- rikishi carrying a sword who follows the yokozuna to the ring during his ring-entering ceremony
sumo noun noun (generic)
- a quick thrust of the hand
sumo noun noun (generic)
- winning technique where the opponent is lifted out by his belt