Sources:
BIG HUGE thank you to Mai who provided the bulk of this research and helped us understand Makiko Uchidate's research.
References
Wikipedia article on Yokozuna Deliberation Council
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokozuna_Deliberation_Council
Wikipedia article on Makiko Uchidate (内館牧子) (in Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E9%A4%A8%E7%89%A7%E5%AD%90
Books
M. Uchidate. Sumou No Fushigi [Mysteries of Sumo]. Tokyo: Ushio Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2018.
M. Uchidate. Sumou No Fushigi 2 [Mysteries of Sumo 2]. Tokyo: Ushio Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2022.
M. Uchidate. Sumou No Fushigi 3 [Mysteries of Sumo 3]. Ushio Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2024.
M. Uchidate. Yourouin Yori Daigakuin [Graduate School than Nursing Home]. Koudansha Ltd., 2006.
M. Uchidate. Wakarete Yokatta [I’m Glad We Broke Up]. Koudansha Ltd., n.d.
M. Uchidate. Yokoshin No Majo to Yobarete [Being Called the Witch of the YDC]. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., 2010.
M. Uchidate. Onna Wa Naze Dohyo Ni Agarenainoka [Why Can’t Women Enter the Sumo Ring?]. Gentosha Inc., 2006.
Suzuki Masataka. “Sumō No Nyonin Kinsei to Dentō No Saikōchiku {Sumō Tournaments and the Exclusion of Women Under the Reconstruction of Tradition].” Philosphy, Mita Philosophy Society, 147, no. 2021–03 (2021): 103–33.
Japanese Feminist Magazine, the issue on Nonin Kinsei
伊藤春奈. (2023). エクセトラ VOL.９特集：NO MORE 女人禁制. エトセトラブックス,
The children's book on sumo
まだらめ 三保(著）国井節（イラスト）,. おひめさまおすもうさんになる. ポプラ社, 1992.
Academic Article
DeWitt, Lindsey E. “Japan’s Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women: The Olympic Male Sumo Wrestler (Part 1).” Religions 12, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 749. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12090749.
Websites
Makiko Uchidate
Wikipedia Article of Makiko Uchidate (in Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%85%E9%A4%A8%E7%89%A7%E5%AD%90
Article on Makiko Uchidate’s retirement on Sumo Fan Magazine:
https://www.sumofanmag.com/content/Issue_29/Uchidate_retirement.pdf
ABC News article on Asashoryu and Uchidate’s comments:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-29/charges-could-see-sumo-champ-expelled/314376
List of Makiko Uchidate’s screenplays,dramas, and TV shows:
https://mydramalist.com/people/53401-uchidate-makiko
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191642?language=en-US
NHK article on the TV series ‘Hirari’
https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/articles/?id=C0010402
Website of Tohoku University’s Public Relations Magazine http://www.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/manabi/manabi44/mm44-8.html
A sample of Ucidate’s writing
https://tree-novel.com/works/episode/5f256b80dcdcca632f703fb1870b62ce.html
Yokozuna Deliberation Council
Wikipedia Article on Yokozuna Deliberation Comittee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokozuna_Deliberation_Council
Web article from NHK on new two members of the YDC
Konno Misako and Ikenobō Yasuko are the first two women to join the sumo wrestling committee". NHK (in Japanese). 31 March 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
Webarticles on Konno Misako (the current member of the Yokozuna Deliberation Comitee) https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14669901
http://konno-misako.com/profile
Articles on Ikenobō Yasuko (cureent member of the YDC):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuko_Ikenob%C5%8D
http://yasukoikenobo.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/
Wikipedia Article on “Women Please Get off the Dohyo” (in Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E3%81%AF%E5%9C%9F%E4%BF%B5%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E9%99%8D%E3%82%8A%E3%81%A6%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A0%E3%81%95%E3%81%84
https://hapisumu.jp/contents/interview/special/makikouchidate_01/
https://hapisumu.jp/contents/interview/special/makikouchidate_02/
https://www.sumofanmag.com/content/Issue_29/Uchidate_retirement.pdf
https://mydramalist.com/people/53401-uchidate-makiko
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191642?language=en-US
https://tree-novel.com/works/episode/5f256b80dcdcca632f703fb1870b62ce.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokozuna_Deliberation_Council
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-29/charges-could-see-sumo-champ-expelled/314376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuko_Ikenob%C5%8D
http://yasukoikenobo.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14669901
http://konno-misako.com/profile
M. Uchidate. Sumou No Fushigi 3 [Mysteries of Sumo 3]. Ushio Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2024.
158-185
Website of Tohoku University’s Public Relations Magazine
M. Uchidate. Yourouin Yori Daigakuin [Graduate School than Nursing Home]. Koudansha Ltd., 2006.
p171-180
M. Uchidate. Sumou No Fushigi [Mysteries of Sumo]. Tokyo: Ushio Publishing Co.,Ltd., 2018. ki Masataka. “Sumō No Nyonin Kinsei to Dentō No Saikōchiku {Sumō Tournaments and the Exclusion of Women Under the Reconstruction of Tradition].” Philosphy, Mita Philosophy Society, 147, no. 2021–03 (2021): 103–33.
NHK article on Hirari https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/articles/?id=C0010402
M. Uchidate. Wakarete Yokatta [I’m Glad We Broke Up]. Koudansha Ltd., n.d. p272,286-287
Music:
"Advanced Japanese Folk" by Audiotoolz
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiotoolz/ProgressiveFolk/02-audiotoolz-advancedjapanesefolk
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Vaquero Perdido Mini Vandals from the Youtube Free Music Library
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"Hey Girl" Topher Mohr and Alex Elena