noun:

• wicket gate; wooden door
• entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)

noun:

• rematch (e.g. in sumo when the match is too close to decide)

noun:

• banners of thanks for the full house (in sumo tournaments, soccer matches, concerts, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• competing in earnest (esp. in sumo) - slang

noun:

• Mongolian wrestling; Mongolian sumo

noun:

• classification of Japanese words by their origin as Japanese, Chinese or Western

noun:

• slim sumo wrestler; slim build - Sumo term ➜ あんこ型【あんこがた】

noun:

• closed shop system (employment of only union members) ➜ オープンショップ制

noun:

• allowance paid by the Sumo Association to a coach for each wrestler in his stable - Sumo term

noun:

• forbidden move (sumo, shogi, go, etc.); prohibited move; foul

noun:

• Japanese language
• native Japanese words (esp. not Chinese and other foreign loanwords)

noun:

• Three Alls Strategy; Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War - 三光 is a ref. to a Chinese phrase meaning 'kill all, burn all, loot all'

noun:

• beam running between columns in traditional Japanese architecture, esp. within Japanese-style rooms

noun:

• Japanese war tuba; pre-radar acoustic locator used by the Imperial Japanese Army

noun:

• bold move (in sumo, judo, etc.); daring move; powerful technique

noun:

• 4 corner bales on the outer rim of the sumo ring - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• union; unity; solidarity
• bundling; binding; tying
• putting on (clothes, armour, etc.) - archaism

noun:

• posture in which the legs are firmly planted (in sumo and judo) - Sumo, Martial Arts term

noun:

• Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale
• greenish brown - abbreviation ➜ 鶯茶

prefix noun:

• having a beautiful voice

noun:

• bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to allow a less skilled person to practice with one (esp. in sumo) ➜ 胸を借りる

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be allowed to practice with a partner of higher skill (esp. in sumo) ➜ 胸を貸す

noun:

• "new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi - Sumo term

noun:

• brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus)
• Japanese dace (Tribolodon hakonensis) ➜ 石斑魚
• Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) - colloquialism ➜ 井守
• dysentery - colloquialism ➜ 赤痢

noun / ~の noun:

• eastern direction
• the Orient

noun:

• eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling) ［ひがしかた・ひがしがた］ - Martial Arts term