Various forms of Wrestling have been practiced for thousands of years. The first record of sumo is over 2000 years old, a bout that took place in 23 BC.
After you wrestle with the sumo
You have to have completed 9 years of school to become a member of a sumo stable. That is about age 15. You also have to meet the height and weight requirements.
Yes, that is about the age that apprentices join sumo stables. They have to meet certain height and weight requirements and they have to have some skills.
In Japanese, there is no visible indication, it is determined by the context. He was a sumo wrestler. There were ten sumo in that stable.
What English-speakers think of when they say "sumo" (i.e. heavyset men wrestling) is also called "sumo" in Japanese. Basically, sumo is sumo!
Cow & Chicken
Sumo is a Japanese sport. There are Chinese sumo wrestlers.
Sumo
Yes Sumo are useful.
The champion sumo (Yokozuna) is inside the sumo match place.
its in sumo dojo
The activity itself is referred to as Sumo, but it the competition itself can be refereed to as a sumo bout. The important tournaments are called Basho.