On Sunday we went to Gamagori, about an hour by car/train, to a festival! There are festivals all summer, in different places. This one is called Gamagori Tezutsu Hanabi Matsuri, which means, "Gamagori Hand-held Fireworks Festival". There was nice festival foods: yaki-soba, curry rice, chicken on a stick, and ice cream! Then, when it became dark, they began the fireworks. These are not the shoot-them-off-into-the-sky kind of fireworks. As you can see from the video (yay, i got a video to work!) they hold onto these bamboo cannons wrapped in rope, which are presumably packed with gunpowder or something, and they hold onto them until they finally pop and go out. It seems dangerous to the ears especially, but i also marveled at how their hair didn't catch fire.
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WOW!! those fireworks are cool! last night we set off our own tiny fireworks on the apartment roof. Not half as cool as this. It was funny because we but we got shouted at by a very angry Japanese man. I have never heard those words in that tone before!!
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