💥WOMEN SUMO💥World Championships 2018 & 2019 Highlights

💥WOMEN SUMO💥World Championships 2018 & 2019 Highlights

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBows4jkOw

The first recorded instance of women performing sumo, according to the Nihon Shoki, is when Emperor Yuryaku (418–479) summoned two courtesans and ordered them to wear loincloths and to sumo wrestle.

Women's sumo would not become common until the 18th century in the middle of Edo (1603–1868) when a form of onna sumo was performed in some areas of Japan. Various types of women's sumo existed, including touring professionals. These continued to exist after the Meiji Restoration until women's sumo was cracked down upon by the Tokugawa shogunate and Meiji government, as they deemed the organizers of it to be corrupting public morals with these spectacles.

Women's sumo continued to exist despite a government ban in 1926. The practice would only die after the end of World War II, with the last group dissolving in 1963.