Baby Sumo

I saw this while I was in Hiroshima, and it was so freakin cute I just had to blog it. I’m not really sure what it is, but it happened on the Children’s Day public holiday.

From what I could gather, it seems that a pair of babies are put into the ring by their parents, and the Shinto official waves his fan to start the bout. It seemed to me that whichever baby cried the first or the loudest was the winner.