Japanese babies enter the sumo ring
Tamana District in Kumamoto prefecture held a sumo event for babies over the weekend:
The event takes place every year when Futeno Izumi, a professional sumo wrestler from the region, returns home. Unlike the naki zumo events mentioned before on this blog, the object of the event was not to make the babies cry. Futeno merely held each baby as he did some ritual movements within the sumo ring. Some cried, some didn’t.
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