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Today, sumo champions — the only men still allowed to wear the samurai warrior’s gleaming top-knot hairdo — are national heroes and are much in demand for TV commercials.
For the first time in the 300-year history of sumo, a foreigner became grand champion by defeating another foreigner.
Sumo wrestlers and Kabuki actors were the celebrities, and artists advertised their prowess in cheap color woodblock prints (see Katsukawa Shun'ei's The Sumo Wrestlers Kajihama and Jinmaku , circa 1790, and Toshusai Sharaku's The Kabuki Actor Otani Oniji III as the Servant Edohei , 1794).
Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.
Sumo tournaments are held in January, May, and September at the Kuramae Kokugikan in Tokyo, during March in Osaka, in July in Nagoya, and in November in Fukuoka (Kyushu).