Citations and References

Some of the nice people/organizations/companies that let us use their materials are:

http://www.sumo.or.jp
The Nihon Sumo Kyokai
http://www.asahi.com
Asashi Shimbun
 
Ryuku Shimpo
http://www.zakzak.co.jp
Zakzak
http://www.sumo.cz

Czech Sumo Union/ European Sumo Union/ Shiroikuma
http://www.xusxus.com
Xusxus
http://www.mainichi.co.jp
Mainichi Shimbun
http://www.corbis.com
Corbis Online Gallery
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lmartres/Sumo_gallery.html
Laurent Martnes

(More about copyright information is available upon request.)

All Live-action photos from this site are from one of the preceding sites/groups. You MUST have their permission to reproduce these images, on a website or otherwise.

All Video Files in /29486/media/ are property of the Nihon Sumo Kyokai. Any unlawful reproduction is prohibited.

All Videos and images in the amatuer section are property of the European Sumo Union/Czech Sumo Union, and they were digitized by ShiroiKuma.

Some books we used for reference are:

The Big Book of Sumo, By Mina Hall. Published by Stone Bridge Press, 1997. ISBN # 1-880656-28-0

Most of the information on this site was from Tyler's personal Sumo knowledge, and we have done our best to check information errors.