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Common noun

straw bag; sack; bale

ひょう only; Counter; Sometimes びょう or ぴょう

counter for sacks (of rice, potatoes, coal, etc.)

goods in straw bags

number of straw bags

Elaeagnus multiflora var. hortensis (variety of goumi)

snow roller (wind-blown roll of snow)

Historical term

Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

Rare term

making bags out of this year's straw (during autumn)

Sumo

(wrestling) ring

forum (e.g. for discussion)

sandbag; gabion

bag of rice

one (straw) bagful

Sumo

edge of the ring

verge; brink; critical moment; last moment

sack for charcoal

Sumo

entrance procession of wrestlers into the ring

Sumo

first tournament for a wrestler

straw lid covering either end of a rice container

Sumo

4 bales on the edge of the ring set slightly back

Idiomatic expression

kome hyappyō; (ideal of) enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow; hundred sacks of rice

Sumo

wrestler's active career

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bales forming the edge of the ring

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bales forming the outer rim of the ring

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waiting place for a wrestler beside the ring

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opening ceremony for the new ring in a stable

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ceremony to purify the ring before the start of a tournament

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wrestler's belt used in a bout