大相撲における部屋制度の歴史

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Sumo is a sport culture that was fostered by Japanese people ane Japanese culture, and it has been a difinite organization and institution in the capacity of professional sport. The Sumo Wrestling Association was called Sumo-kaisho in the Edo period. The Sumo Wrestling Association has about thirty Sumobeya which are no parallel to other sports. This Sumobeya is a private training center of Sumo where both a master of Sumo and many diciples live together in a same house, in order to accede to Sumo culture. The object of this research is to compare the Sumo Wrestling Association (Sumo-kaisho) with Kabunakama from a historical and a sociological (structural-functional analysis) standpoints. The result of this research made clear that the Sumo Wrestling Association (Sumo-kaisho) and Kabunakama similarly originated in the mid-eighteenth century and took its rise in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. Both of them had a same organization and institution from a standpoint of structural-functional analysis.
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