Monday, August 2, 2010

八月二日(hachigatsu futsuka): August 2

It was very hot again.
Another big festival in Tohoku (東北) started today. That is Aomori Nebuta Matsuri (青森ねぶた祭り). It will last until 7th and is estimated to attract about 3 million spectators.
http://www.nebuta.or.jp/english/index_e.htm

In Nagaoka, Niigata(新潟県長岡市:niigata ken nagaoka shi), there was Nagaoka Matsuri (長岡祭り) with fireworks festival. There will be fireworks festival tomorrow too. With those two days about 20,000 fireworks will be shot off.
Nagaoka fireworks festival is one of the three biggest fireworks competitions in Japan.
Fireworks is hanabi (花火) in Japanese. Hana (花) means flower and bi (火) means fire. Beautiful name, isn't it?

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