In sumo, East vs. West—now the East side is treated as higher status, but many older people have the memory that the West side was treated as higher.
In sumo, East vs. West — nowadays the East side is treated as the higher rank, but many older folks remember when the West side was treated as higher. At Ryogoku Kokugikan, too, there should have been a display panel on the history of sumo stating that since sumo originally began as a Shinto rite in Izumo, with Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto as the boundary, the West side where Izumo is located was treated as higher and the Edo side as lower, and that postwar professional sumo inherited that. But now, when it comes to the origin or rationale of the higher/lower treatment of East and West, it’s supposedly been vague all along. It seems a West-Pure-Land-ish way of thinking and a way of thinking that the East is higher because the sun rises in the East are in opposition. Also, professional sumo settled into seven tournaments a year after the war, and if you included the tournament format it was criticized as too tough at eight a year, but now it’s six a year. What seems to have disappeared is Kyoto as a honbasho (official tournament). Now, the Kyoto basho is treated as part of the regional touring exhibitions.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.