Japan, the sumo of crying: children transformed into wrestlers in the propitiatory rite

Certain days of the year, in a handful of Shinto shrines scattered throughout Japan, enormous and half-naked bodies, made of muscles and marble, are seen passing by. It is the sumo wrestlers who only the impassive confidence of the gaze, the superb and brazen pose of the face, and above all their extraordinary multitude concentrated in the enclosure of the sanctuary, ensures that they are not considered out of context.