Went to the Fireworks show at Shibamata of Katsushika. Shibamata is where the story of "Otoko wa tsurai yo" is based. Last year, 300 thousands people are said to have gone for the show. This year, the show has 8 stages, with upgraded versions of the works that won rewards in last year's competition.
It is a fine day, without a piece of could, and after so many cloudy and rainy days. The show started at 7:20PM and ended at 8:20PM, firing about 10 thousands of fireworks.
When I arrived at the venue, more than two hours before the starting time, it was almost full of people. There are also many plastic sheets occupying some nice spots. It is the traditional BaSyoToRi for events like this. Another well known BaSyoToRi is during cherry blossom season. It is interesting to observe people sitting at places where obviously has been covered by basyotori sheets. It is easy to assume so because there are one or two similar sheets right nearby, and on top of them another crumbled one that has obviously been blown over by the wind. Plastic nails are used to fix the sheets, but not strong enough to resist the nature's power.
The normally polite attitudes in public relationship is not visible there. Basyotori (mostly by local residents) is unpleasant to people who come several hours before the starting time, and from far away. But the sheets might be simply thrown away by the later comers if in China. I never expected to see Japanese people ignoring the obvious signs and other people's efforts, which are not really nice ones. When the owners of the blown away sheets came at last, some complained vigirous at first, but having no much moral support from around, they finally gave up, and went to other places instead.
No huge fireworks had been fired for this show, but it went on for about 50 minutes, with only brief breaks between stage. There had been a good combinations of designs, colors and themes. The vivid works of butter fly, ladybird are truly amazing. There were also various types of flower, and even heart shape. The spherical types were not simple colors or chaotic mistures of colors, but had gorgours three dimensional patterns. The most elegant color, and the most representative one for Katsushika show, is purple.
The photos: part I, part II, part III (saddly, I don't have enough experiences to get good focus; only the timings are reasonably good).
When I arrived at the venue, more than two hours before the starting time, it was almost full of people. There are also many plastic sheets occupying some nice spots. It is the traditional BaSyoToRi for events like this. Another well known BaSyoToRi is during cherry blossom season. It is interesting to observe people sitting at places where obviously has been covered by basyotori sheets. It is easy to assume so because there are one or two similar sheets right nearby, and on top of them another crumbled one that has obviously been blown over by the wind. Plastic nails are used to fix the sheets, but not strong enough to resist the nature's power.
The normally polite attitudes in public relationship is not visible there. Basyotori (mostly by local residents) is unpleasant to people who come several hours before the starting time, and from far away. But the sheets might be simply thrown away by the later comers if in China. I never expected to see Japanese people ignoring the obvious signs and other people's efforts, which are not really nice ones. When the owners of the blown away sheets came at last, some complained vigirous at first, but having no much moral support from around, they finally gave up, and went to other places instead.No huge fireworks had been fired for this show, but it went on for about 50 minutes, with only brief breaks between stage. There had been a good combinations of designs, colors and themes. The vivid works of butter fly, ladybird are truly amazing. There were also various types of flower, and even heart shape. The spherical types were not simple colors or chaotic mistures of colors, but had gorgours three dimensional patterns. The most elegant color, and the most representative one for Katsushika show, is purple.
The photos: part I, part II, part III (saddly, I don't have enough experiences to get good focus; only the timings are reasonably good).
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