The whole world seems hot and getting hotter, and Tokyo is no exception. How does it feel to walk a sun-baked city street together with 700,000 fellow humans, each radiating 98.6 degrees F of heat?
It feels hot, muggy, and totally exhilarating because of what we have just seen: one of Japan's most stupendous displays of fireworks.
Twelve thousand rounds of shooting stars, fiery chrysanthemums, ethereal butterflies and more! They fill the sky over Tokyo Bay, turn the murky water from black to lime and scarlet, and send their colors ricocheting off the glass-sheathed skyscrapers that line the bay's left bank.
This is what I love about Japan. Give them gunpowder, and they will turn it into flowers. It wouldn't be summer in Japan without "hanabi" (flower-fires) festivals.
Okinawa Looks Like This
Peaceful: a beautiful place for a walk
自己紹介
- Chura
- Born and raised in the USA (NJ), I’ve spent most of my adult life in Japan. One of my favorite places in Japan is Okinawa. To me, Okinawa is a land of stories and an island of music, magic and mystery. The music is shima-uta, songs sung to the rhythm of a three-stringed lute called a sanshin. The magic is in the colors of land, sea and sky. The mystery? Mystery begins where the line between legend and verifiable human memories begins to blur. I am a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, chapter chief of a sanshin study society, and a founding member of the Marine Culture Research Association of Okinawa.