Photo of the Day (4.20.10)

by Stephen Greenwood on

Welcome to Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan – home of the Crying Sumo Baby Festival. Yes, you read that right. Crying sumo babies. The rules are simple: two sumo wrestlers face off in a ring and each is handed a baby. The babies are raised and whichever baby cries the loudest, wins. Brilliant!

This photo was taken by Flickr user Vyxle at the 2008 Crying Sumo Baby Festival. If you’re headed to Tokyo, this Asakusa guide lists the festival to be in ‘late April’, so keep an eye (and ear) out for the shrill sound of infant waterworks.

Click through below for a video from a Crying Sumo Baby Festival – a picture may be worth a thousand words, but there’s nothing like watching this cuteness in action.

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Photo of the Day (10/25/06)

by Adrienne Wilson on


Question – As travel photographers are we just suckers for children or are they really that cute? Seriously! I know I’ve taken a good handful of pictures of the foreign youngsters in the past. With most of my shots I always found extremely big bright eyes looking into the lens accompanied by goofy childish grins and giggles frozen in time. Here it feels like quite the opposite. We’ve got two very adorable young girls both sampling what looks like some overly delicious vanilla ice cream on cones. Neither seems interested in the camera and the one on the left looks more interested in her friend’s ice cream than her own. Very nice shot from vyxle taken in Japan and I love the fog in the background.

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