1. hairdresser (for sumo wrestlers and actors); wigmaker (for actors)
2. hairdressing room (Edo-period kabuki)
3. TokoyamaA tokoyama (床山) is a hairdresser employed by the Japan Sumo Association to cut and prepare sumo wrestlers' hair, which is done in a chonmage style. The Sumo Association ranks them according to experience and ability and only the most senior tokoyama are entitled to prepare the more ornate oicho, or ginkgo leaf form of topknot, which sekitori ranked wrestlers wear in their bouts and on other formal occasions.
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