What is "tawara"

n. (context sumo English) straw bales, packed with earth, placed in a circle on the dohyo and forming the area that the rikishi must stay inside

Tawara may refer to:

• Sunao Tawara – Japanese pathologist

:*Aschoff–Tawara node – alternative name for the atrioventricular node

:*Tawara's branches – alternative name for the left and right bundle branches in the electrical conduction system of the heart (between the bundle of His and the Purkinje fibres)

• Tawara, Ivory Coast, a village in Savanes District, Ivory Coast
• Bales of straw - see Glossary of sumo terms