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| Sumo Ceremony |
As a sport which has boasted a history of some 1500 years, sumo has inherited from the past many traditional rituals and etiquette as follows.
The ring entering ceremony, or Dohyo iri (土俵入り)
The ring entering ceremony takes place immediately before the Makuuchi (幕内) matches. Firstly, down from one aisle, in the rank order from bottom to top, comes out one team of sumo wrestlers but Yokoduna (横綱) who are qualified for the Makuuchi matches, and wearing ceremonial aprons. These silk aprons are luxuriantly embroidered with exquisite patterns and hemmed with gold fringes. Therefore, they are quite expensive, costing somewhere from 40,000 to 50,000 JPY. The wrestlers, or rikishi, climb into the ring and go through a short ceremony which has been practiced since ancient times. Then they depart the ring followed by the other team of sumo wrestlers from a different aisle repeating the same procedure. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aduHO7dl3d8)
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