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August – Fireworks Updated in August 2018

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Starting in late July, many gorgeous fireworks festivals (hanabi-taikai) take place all over Japan. Watching 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 local hanabi-taikai is almost compulsory if you are in Japan during summer. It is also 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 busiest season for pyrotechnicians or hanabi-shi, who formulate 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 firework and manage 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 actual ignition. Some hanabi-shi take part in 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 production of 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 festival by simulating 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 whole show with a software, including sound and o德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴r effects. Nowadays, producing a grand show has become less dangerous due to remote electric igniters. 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 exact timing to “ignite” 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 hanabi from different locations can be pre-programmed. 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 workload of hanabi-shi building up to 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 finale is so demanding, it is customary at 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 Omagari fireworks championship for 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 crowd to bring flashlights. When 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 show is over, 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 crowd would signal appreciation to 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 hanabi-shi by waving 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴ir flashlights.

While 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 western fireworks shell resembles a cylinder, 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 traditional Japanese hanabi shell is shaped like a globe. 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 hollow interior of 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 hemisphere-shaped shell is carefully lined with different types of colored explosive pellets in 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 exact order to create 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 elaborately designed “work” of fire. In this process, 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 hanabi-shi must be extremely careful with any kind of friction, shock or static electricity so as not to stimulate 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 explosives. When 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 inside of 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 shell is dried and sealed, it looks like a melon. One of 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 biggest characteristics of Japanese fireworks is its variation in coloring. It can stay up in 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 sky longer by slowly transforming its shape and hue. 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 color red consists of strontium carbonate, blue from copper oxide, green from barium nitrate, and so forth. By mixing 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴se substances, options are endless.

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Ano德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴r type of fireworks is 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 traditional hand-held “tezutsu hanabi” which originated in Aichi prefecture. A hollowed bamboo measuring about one meter is filled with low explosive powder to shoot up into 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 night sky, until it burns out with a bursting sound. Some shoot up higher than ten meters. It is quite thrilling to see 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 performers holding on to 德赢与AC米兰官方合作伙伴 bamboo shell without wearing any protective gear.

National Fireworks Championship in Omagari August 25, 2018
https://nanmoda.jp/2017/08/1089/

Tezutsu Hanabi Performance “Hono no Saiten” September 8, 2018
http://www.honokuni.or.jp/toyohashi/en/festival/000020.html
https://hanabi2020.jp/en/art/

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