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*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.)
*In the Edo period, there was in most regions no peasant custom as to a widow's obligations to her late husband's family. In widowhood, a woman was particularly free to do as she wished, to remarry or not, to remain with the husband's family or not, to return to her own parents' household or not, to travel, and so forth. Many took the tonsure in order to cement their new status, independent of any family obligations. - Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 124.
*In aftermath of [[1616]] bans on Christianity, loads of Japanese converts who had simply adopted Christianity at the orders of their lord renounced the religion. A written oath was required in many cases. Christianity enjoyed numbers around 300,000 in Japan at its peak around [[1615]], but by the late 1630s was reduced to only ''[[kakure Kirishitan]]'' pockets. - Robert Hellyer, Defining Engagements, 47.
*In aftermath of [[1616]] bans on Christianity, loads of Japanese converts who had simply adopted Christianity at the orders of their lord renounced the religion. A written oath was required in many cases. Christianity enjoyed numbers around 300,000 in Japan at its peak around [[1615]], but by the late 1630s was reduced to only ''[[kakure Kirishitan]]'' pockets. - Robert Hellyer, Defining Engagements, 47.