立たて行ぎょう司じ

noun

head referee (sumo)

The highest-ranking referee in professional sumo, distinguished by wearing a dagger (tantō) as a symbol of the seriousness of their decisions.

• 立たて行ぎょう司じは土ど俵ひょう上じょうで短たん刀とうを差さしている。

  The head referee wears a dagger on the sumo ring.

• 立たて行ぎょう司じの判はん定ていに物もの言いいがついた。

  The head referee's decision was challenged.