Editing Sumo (section)

===Women and sumo===
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Women are not allowed to compete in professional sumo. They are also not allowed to enter the wrestling ring (''[[dohyō]]''), a tradition stemming from Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that [[Culture and menstruation|women are "impure" because of menstrual blood]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yoshida |first1=Reiji |title=Banning women from the sumo ring: centuries-old tradition, straight-up sexism or something more complex? |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/30/national/social-issues/banning-women-sumo-ring-sexism-centuries-old-cultural-tradition/ |access-date=11 December 2019 |work=The Japan Times |date=30 April 2018 |archive-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516214756/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/30/national/social-issues/banning-women-sumo-ring-sexism-centuries-old-cultural-tradition/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kheliyad.com/2019/10/sumo-wrestling-heavyweight-japan-part-2.html|title=women sumo wrestling restrictions|last=Pathade|first=Mahesh|website=Kheliyad|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/female-medics-rushed-help-man-055747808.html|title=Female Medics Rushed to Help a Man Who Collapsed on a Sumo Ring. They Were Promptly Told to Leave|website=news.yahoo.com|date=April 5, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2020|archive-date=August 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811185516/https://news.yahoo.com/female-medics-rushed-help-man-055747808.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

A form of {{nihongo|female sumo|女相撲|onnazumo}} existed in some parts of Japan before professional sumo was established.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004365275|title=SUMO ABC (75) / Banning women from the dohyo is groundless in this day and age - The Japan News|last=Miki|first=Shuji|date=21 April 2018|publisher=Japan News/Yomiuri Shimbun|access-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423232756/http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004365275|archive-date=23 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 2018 film ''[[The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine]]'' depicts female sumo wrestlers at the time of civil unrest following the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake]].