{"id":1793,"date":"2011-08-20T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/08\/20\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T01:00:41","slug":"okazaki-%e8%8a%b1%e7%81%ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/08\/20\/okazaki-%e8%8a%b1%e7%81%ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Okazaki \u00e8\u0160\u00b1\u00e7\u0081\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As my time winds down here, the number of cultural experiences or re-experiences is increasing.  I guess I sense the ticking clock acutely, and so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to enjoy and soak it all in.<\/p>\n<p>The first summer I was here, I caught the <a href=\"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/07\/27\/hanabi-\u00e8\u0160\u00b1\u00e7\u0081\u00ab\/\">fireworks in Gifu<\/a>.  By the end of the show, my neck was hurting.  Last summer I watched the Nagoya Port fireworks and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even bother to blog about it.  This year, because of a spontaneous Tweet by Hitomi-san (Hi-chan), I decided to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp\/index.htm\">Okazaki<\/a> fireworks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_0.jpg\" alt=\"Nagoya to Okazaki\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had kind of given up on fireworks ( \u00e8\u0160\u00b1\u00e7\u0081\u00ab- Hanabi) probably because it all starts to look the same after about 10,000 explosions.  This fireworks exhbition promised 20,000!  I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything going on, Hi-chan is fun, so why not go?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_02.jpg\" alt=\"Hiromi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okazaki,_Aichi\">Wikipedia<\/a> says that, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okazaki is also well-known, and perhaps most famous for, its fireworks. The Tokugawa Shogunate restricted production of gunpowder outside of its immediate region (with few exceptions), and even today, more than seventy percent (70%) of Japan&#8217;s fireworks are designed and manufactured here. A large fireworks festival, which people from all over Japan come to see, is held annually on the first Saturday in August in the area surrounding Okazaki Castle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I led us to the wrong train, but we got to Okazaki, found a pretty good spot to sit by the riverside, and enjoyed what a festival brings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_01.jpg\" alt=\"Peaceful river setting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The scene was very crowded, as you would expect at a fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_03.jpg\" alt=\"All along the shore\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d food a festival has to offer as well.  Karaage, frankfurters, yakisoba, beer.  What more can you ask for?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_04.jpg\" alt=\"Frankfurters were popular\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_05.jpg\" alt=\"Healthy!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fireworks were remarkable as well, although as always I did get a little bored and my neck started to hurt.  I tried a new setting on the camera, and this is the result.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never enjoyed photographing fireworks anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_06.jpg\" alt=\"Okazaki fireworks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_07.jpg\" alt=\"Okazaki fireworks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_08.jpg\" alt=\"Okazaki fireworks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_09.jpg\" alt=\"Okazaki fireworks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_11.jpg\" alt=\"Okazaki fireworks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaoru-san came to join us, but we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get together until after the show was over.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Hi-chan and Kaoru-san for a fun night.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my photographic experimentation, I now know how all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hubble\/main\/index.html\">Hubble Telescope<\/a> pictures have been taken?  Outer space photographs?  Peeshawwww.  Just a bad photo at a fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oka_10.jpg\" alt=\"Nebula\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my time winds down here, the number of cultural experiences or re-experiences is increasing. I guess I sense the ticking clock acutely, and so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to enjoy and soak it all in. The first summer I was here, I caught the fireworks in Gifu. By the end of the show, my neck was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/08\/20\/okazaki-%e8%8a%b1%e7%81%ab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Okazaki \u00e8\u0160\u00b1\u00e7\u0081\u00ab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}