tōgyū
Sign in to savethumb|Two bulls beginning a match in Ishikawa, Okinawa thumb|Arena on Okinawa Island , also known as ushi-zumo or bull sumo, is bull wrestling as it is called in Japan. It used to be a traditional annual or seasonal sport by the proud owners of the farming bulls, but it is now held as a spectator sport in various places, such as the prefectures of Iwate, Kagoshima (Amami Islands), Niigata, Okinawa and Shimane (Oki Islands).
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thumb|Two bulls beginning a match in Ishikawa, Okinawa thumb|Arena on Okinawa Island , also known as ushi-zumo or bull sumo, is bull wrestling as it is called in Japan. It used to be a traditional annual or seasonal sport by the proud owners of the farming bulls, but it is now held as a spectator sport in various places, such as the prefectures of Iwate, Kagoshima (Amami Islands), Niigata, Okinawa and Shimane (Oki Islands).
Although sometimes known as "Japanese bullfighting", it is drastically different from the Spanish or Portuguese style of bullfighting where the matches are between a bull and a human, with blood being spilt. Tōgyū has more in common with northern Portugal's sport of chegas and the Swiss sport of cow fighting.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tōgyū” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.