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2026 date. July 25. ( 2026-07-25) Tokyo Skytree. The Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival ( Japanese: 隅田川花火大会, Hepburn: Sumidagawa Hanabi Taikai) is an annual fireworks festival held on the last Saturday in July, over the Sumidagawa near Asakusa. The Sumidagawa Hanabi Taikai follows the Japanese tradition of being a competition between ...
The Sumida River (隅田川, Sumida-gawa) is a river that flows through central Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi (in Kita-ku) and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers. It passes through the Kita, Adachi, Arakawa, Sumida, Taitō, Kōtō and Chūō wards of Tokyo .
An illustration of a fireworks display from the 1628–1643 edition of the Ming Dynasty novel Jin Ping Mei An etching of the Royal Fireworks display on the Thames, London, England, in 1749 An 18th-century illustration of Chinese fireworks from an English abstract of an account of China by French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville A firework display for Muḥammad Sháh, portrayed seated and ...
Tenjin Matsuri is a festival held throughout Japan on the 24 and 25 July every year at Tenmangū shrines. The festival commemorates the death anniversary of the deity Sugawara no Michizane, of these festivals, the one held in Osaka at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine is the largest. The celebrations climax with a 100 river-boat procession and fireworks show.
1,486 killed. 65.5 to 80 percent of the city destroyed. The bombing of Nagaoka (長岡空襲, Nagaoka kūshū) took place on the night of 1 August 1945, as part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in the Japan home islands during the closing ...
The Honda Celebration of Light (formerly known as the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire and the HSBC Celebration of Light) is an annual musical fireworks competition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first "Symphony of Fire" was held from July 25 to August 5, 1990. The celebration is one of Vancouver's largest and most well-known ...
Senko hanabi ( 線香花火 senkō hanabi ) ( sparkler - literally: incense-stick fireworks) is a traditional Japanese firework. Essays about them date back to at least 1927. [1] They are a thin shaft of twisted tissue paper about 20 centimeters long with one end containing a few grains of a black gunpowder. The black powder composition ...
Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.In Japan, festivals are called matsuri (祭り), and the origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities), and there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make ...