160 Babies Cry It Out In Japan S Naki Sumo Crying Baby Contest The naki sumo crying baby festival (japanese: 泣き相撲, hepburn: nakizumō) is an annual japanese festival in which babies are held in the arms of sumo wrestlers in an open air sumo ring. two babies compete in a short match in which the first child to cry is proclaimed the winner. according to japanese folklore, a crying baby has the power. 400 year old japanese festival has babies compete to cry the loudest. the naki sumo or nakizumo crying baby festival celebrates the belief that crying babies bring good health and fortune to their futures as well as ward off evil spirits. each year, the peaceful air at japan's sensoji temple is disrupted by wails of crying infants.
160 Babies Cry It Out In Japan S Naki Sumo Crying Baby Contest Dozens of bawling japanese babies face off in a traditional "crying sumo" ritual believed to bring the infants good health, which returned for the first time. 696. usually getting a baby to stop crying is the hard part of any parents’ day, but during the nai sumo baby crying festival the goal is to get the wee babes to start and keep crying to get rid. Well, this 400 year festival in japan might be made for you. the annual nakizumo festival, held throughout the country at the end of april, is one of japan’s many odd celebrations. 泣く子は育つ naku ko sodatsu is the japanese saying of the festival, which roughly means “crying babies will grow fast.”. meant to scare off evil. Ring assistants wear masks to scare babies held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during 'nakizumo' or a baby crying sumo contest at sensoji temple in tokyo, japan, april 28.
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