Draft of Units 1-11 of what is presumably intended as a textbook or course of study on sumo, arranged under headings expressed as questions. Presumed to be written by Doreen Simmons. Covers the following: training, apprenticeship, Banzuke (ranking list), costume (the mawashi (belt / loincloth) etc), Kokugikan (the national centre, literally the hall (kan) of the national (koku) art or sport (gi), in Ryogoku, Tokyo), Hon-Basho (one of the six official tournaments in the year), warm-up time and Jump-off, bouts, forbidden techniques, judges, Torikumi Hensei (arranging the bouts), yobidashi (sumo announcer), salaries, other supporting players, Tsuna-uchi (ceremony in which a yokozuna’s tsuna belt is made and presented; yokozuna (the highest rank of wrestler), ring-entering ceremony, trophies and prizes, bow ceremony, elders of the sport, timelines etc. 2 pdfs as follows:
1) Units 1-7, 44 page pdf;
2) Units 8-11, 43 page pdf.