Baby screaming contest a traditional ritual as a prayer at Senso-ji Buddhis Temple

[catstevens]

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29 April, 2006
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Caption: Two babies of less than one year Wakana Yamada, left, and Yukina Abe, right, held by college sumo wrestling members, compete in the baby screaming contest, known as Naki Sumo (Crying Sumo), a traditional ritual performed as a prayer for the good health of children, at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo on Saturday. – AP
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Caption:Less than one-year-old babies, Nozomi Ito, left, and Shinichiro Ishikura, right, held by college sumo wrestlers, compete in the baby screaming contest, known as Naki Sumo, a traditional ritual performed as a prayer for the good health of children, at Senso-ji temple in Tokyo in this Saturday April 29. Japan's birthrate in 2005 dropped to a new record low of 1.25 babies per woman over her lifetime, Kyodo News agency reported on Thursday, June 1, adding concerns of Japan's rapidly graying population and its economy. AP
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Senso-Ji temple is a massive Buddhist temple dedicated to the goddest of mercy. Leading from the street to the temple is a long, cachaphonous row of shops along Nakamise-dori selling everything from minature Japanese dolls to shoes and crackers which are the speciality of the area.

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I heard they have used the sound of screaming babies to torture POWs. I wonder if there's any truth to that? I know for me that sound travels right up my spine, & nails me in the back of the head. Anything to quell the poor childs misery.

So, is it like..If the baby is a good screamer they've got strong lungs...Or what?

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OH! NO, I clicked on edit instead of Quote!!!!!!! :( my reply has been deleted, I wanted to add new info in post #5!!!!!

[catstevens]

OPs!
So, is it like..If the baby is a good screamer they've got strong lungs...Or what?
it is a traditional ritual performed as a prayer for the good health of children, isn't about who is the good screamer so it has got strong lung I think... sadly, They didn't give more details.

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I don't think that they make those children cry deliberately , maybe the children start crying themselves since they are in foreign people's hands, I don't know
Loudest wailer wins championship at Japan’s crying sumo tournament
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1 May 2006

TOKYO - Seventy-four babies born last year were made to cry on Monday at one of Tokyo’s most popular tourist town of Asakusa while nearly 900 spectators cheered on.
In the nationwide traditional ritual called “Naki-zumo”, or crying sumo in Japanese, two babies are held in the arms of university sumo club members and brought to the ring.
The one that wails loudest wins the tournament and is also granted long and healthy years to come, following the Japanese proverb “the more babies cry, the healthier they grow up.”
The presenters who hold the babies try their best to make the contestants cry by making scary faces, putting masks of monsters or raising the babies higher. :(
Babies are crying less and less every year, and the presenters are having more difficulties to make them wail, according to Mainichi Shimbun Monday.
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