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 …

Watching sumo wrestlers trying to make babies cry might seem like an odd pastime, but in Asakusa’s Sensoji it’s an age-old tradition. The unusual 400-year-old event takes place at a …

2024年4月29日 · The traditional "Crying Sumo" event started in 1991 to encourage the health and wellbeing of children. Babies cry as they are held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during …

2016年4月18日 · For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons. Usually getting a baby to stop crying is the hard part of any …

2023年10月23日 · The Naki Sumo Baby Crying Festival, or simply Naki Sumo, is held annually at the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, as well as other locations throughout Japan. The festival's …

2024年4月27日 · The Japan’s Naki Sumo (also “Nakizumo“) Crying Baby Festival is a unique event where parents bring their babies to compete in a crying contest. Sumo wrestlers gently …

With a history of more than 400 years, the Naki Sumo Baby Crying Contest is a traditional festival organised annually in shrines across Japan. Typically held on Children’s Day, 5th May, the …

2019年4月30日 · This year, more than 160 babies born in 2018 competed in the Nakizumo or Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival. The 2019 Naki Sumo Festival in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In …

2017年3月14日 · Nakizumo is a four-decade long tradition that takes place every April 29 (a national holiday) at Senso-ji Temple in the Asakusa ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is called as a …

2023年1月25日 · One such unique festival is the ‘Crying Baby Festival’ called Naki Sumo, wherein sumo wrestlers attempt to make babies cry and ensure they continue crying loudly. The Naki …