Japan ‘crying baby sumo’ festival returns after pandemic
Children held by their mothers start their ‘crying sumo’ match, resumed for the first time in four years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo. – AFP pic, April 22, 2023.
DOZENS of bawling Japanese babies faced off today in a traditional “crying sumo” ritual believed to bring the infants good health, which returned for the first time in four years after the pandemic. Pairs of toddlers wearing ceremonial sumo aprons were held up by their parents and faced each other in the sumo ring at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.
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