“It’s always a delight to see a grown man yell at an infant until, frightened and confused, it bursts into tears. At this traditional ‘konaki’ (crying) sumo festival pairs of babies under one year old are pitted against each other.”
Held annually for the past 400 years in Hirado, Japan, the event is based on the old Japanese proverb that ‘crying babies grow fast’, the louder the child wails, the more the gods are thought to have blessed the child with good health.
Posted by Steph Tekano
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