1) Sumo terminology 
In professional sumo, the tsuyuharai (lit.: dew sweeper) is one of the two attendants that accompany a yokozuna when he performs his dohyō-iri or ring entrance ceremony. The other attendant is called the tachimochi. During the ceremony the tsuyuharai will precede the yokozuna into the ring. He will usually be following the gyōji who leads the th...