Dressed in traditional clothing, the ladies and gentlemen line up in the darkness.
A row of three dazzling shafts of fire were suddenly thrust five meters up into the darkness, the hissing sparks raining down for 30 to 40 seconds before a explosion.
The Tezutsu hand-held fireworks cannon are simple hollowed out bamboo cylinders about 80-cm-long and 10-cm- wide, and wrapped tightly in ropes of woven rice stalks, packed with about three kilograms of old styled black powder. These hand held fireworks, called Tezutsu Hanabi,
Their heads however remain completely unprotected. Having a small volcano erupting in their hands is dangerous enough, but the riskiest part of the entire Tezutsu Hanabi ritual is when the hand canons explode with a deafening bang, signaling the depletion of the powder and engulfing the handlers in bright sparks.
The origin of this firework is said to be a chicken game of the pyrotechnists.
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