Sumo originated in Japan, the only country where it is practised professionally and where it is considered the national sport. [2] [3] It is considered a gendai budō, which refers to modern Japanese martial arts, but the sport has a history spanning many centuries.

2017年4月7日 · Sumo (Ozumo) is an ancient form of wrestling which has long been the national sport of Japan. Its origins go back to the Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE - c. 300 CE) and it incorporates many elements of the Shinto religion in its various rituals and conventions, the combination of which usually last much longer than the actual sporting contest.

At first glance sumo is nothing if not bizarre: overweight men dressed in an enormous thong pushing each other inside a small ring where the pre-ceremony is usually longer than the actual fight.

2025年1月20日 · In Japan, sumo wrestling was under Imperial patronage between 710 and 1185 and was a popular spectator sport. During this era it was refined from a brutal submission spectacle into a highly ritualized toppling match in which victory could be gained by forcing the opponent out of a 15-foot circle.

2021年12月18日 · Sumo wrestling, Japan’s traditional national sport, began as a ritual offering to the shrine gods, and then became elite entertainment and training for samurai. It is hard to think of Japan without sumo wrestling.

Sumo basically took its present form in the Edo period (1603–1867). Matches were held to raise money to construct shrines and temples or to replace bridges, and thus the professional sumo wrestlers were born.

2024年7月11日 · The history of sumo goes back hundreds of years, but it did not look exactly the way it does today. Until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, sumo served as a catch-all term for various forms of wrestling in diverse social settings and for entirely different purposes.

2022年10月28日 · Sumo traces its origins back to the myth of a contest of strength described in Japan's oldest historical chronicles: the Kojiki (712) and the Nihonshoki (720), which recount the story of a Tenran match (a fight held in the presence of the Emperor) between warlords Nomi no Sukune and Taima no Kehaya.

Once patronized by the emperors, Sumo's origins go back at least 1,500 years, making it the world's oldest organized sport. It probably evolved out of Mongolian, Chinese and Korean wrestling.

Historians agree that the origins of sumo date back 2000 years; however, it never really flourished as a spectator sport until the early 1600's. Like any other social group in Japan, there are strict rules and traditions that are observed throughout the sport.