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*"The samurai were not dissatisfied with the premises of a social system in which, after all, they formed the ruling class, but they were enraged by the discrepancy between the theoretical elevation of their status and the reality of their poverty." - Schirokauer, Gay, Lurie, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Fourth Edition, 154.
*Though women were banned from professional [[sumo]], and banned from even touching the ''dôhyô'', all the way up until the 1950s there were unofficial, ''misemono'' matches with mixed-gender or all-female fighters. ("[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=32&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VHwDRcmTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 30 November 2014.)
*Though women were banned from professional [[sumo]], and banned from even touching the ''dôhyô'', all the way up until the 1950s there were unofficial, ''misemono'' matches with mixed-gender or all-female fighters. ("[http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/2013/index.php?page=32&language=&maxImageHeight=470&headerTop=0&headerHeight=109&footerTop=579&bw=1366&sh=0&refreshed=refreshed#.VHwDRcmTLqM Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan]," Honolulu Museum of Art, exhibition website, accessed 30 November 2014.)