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ōichō-mage

The ginkgo-leaf topknot sekitori wear in tournaments.

The ōichō-mage is the topknot sekitori wear in tournaments, fanned out into a shape named after the ginkgo leaf. Lower-ranked wrestlers wear a plainer chonmage. The association's hairdressers, the tokoyama, tie it.

chonmage
The topknot. Lower-ranked wrestlers wear a plain one.
tokoyama
A hairdresser employed by the association to tie the wrestlers' topknots.
sekitori
A wrestler in the top two divisions, makuuchi and jūryō, who's paid a salary.

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