Firework Display

　　Firework displays are held across Japan at this time of the year. Lots of Japanese evoke summer images by them. My hometown is one of those cities which hold a firework display. I don't know the exact number of the fireworks, but the shooting off the fireworks continues for about two hours. It is a really fantastic view. This year, the weather of the day was not so bad. People enjoyed them even from far distant places. The fireworks are set off on the seashore and I'll show you some pictures taken at the airport a few kilometers away from the shooting point.
　　About 20 years ago, I've even seen a firework display overseas, in Butchart Gardens in Victoria in Canada. When I visited the garden, I knew about the event from a flier handed out at the gate. I was waiting for the start of the display at the outdoor table of a restaurant, imaging the Japanese style fireworks, but I couldn't see them. The fireworks were displayed in a slightly pitted place and the spectators had to sit on the slope looking down at the bottom. Was that the common type of firework displays in Canada?
　　You look up at the fireworks in Japan, but you look down on them in Canada. I wonder how the firework displays are in other countries?

　　

　　

(Vocabulary from comments)
pyrotechnics ［U］［単数・複数扱い］
花火の打ち上げ［使用, ショー］；　花火製造術；　（弁舌・機知・演奏などの）華々しさ.

Comments

[KUMO]

I'd like to visit the home of Disney World someday. The Disneyland in Japan is also famous for its magnificent view of the fireworks show.

[Shiroi Tora]

I have always loved the fireworks in Japan. Two hours is a tremendous amount of display time. There is only one place where I had seen a fireworks show that had topped all others...at Disney World's Epcot center...many years ago. It was all perfectly coordinated with inspiring music (played through locally emplaced speakers around the artificial lake to prevent sound delay) and a water fountain and colored light display show. But for a country's consistently beautiful fireworks display...I am sure it is hard to beat Japan. The largest individual blossoms of pyrotechnics I have seen, was when I was in Japan.

Nice photos!

[Peter]

In Canada the firework displays are most often on level ground so you look up at them.