Akamatsu’s Unique Firework Festival 2024

Overview of the Festival:

Participants dedicate handmade blow-tube fireworks to the shrine, competing to showcase the beauty of the sparks emitted from the blow tubes. This festival has been passed down in the Akamatsu district for a long time. Participants wear the sparks that fall from the blow tubes, raised to a height of about 10 meters, and run around in sync with cheers, praying for a bountiful harvest and household safety in the coming year.

 

Story Related to the Festival:

A secret manuscript believed to have been written in the Edo period still exists in Akamatsu, containing the necessary materials and weights for blow-tube fireworks. The tubes for holding fireworks are made by hollowing out naturally thick and straight bamboo with a diameter of 10 cm or more. The formulation of gunpowder, the foundation of the fireworks, varies in each district and is kept secret from other districts.

 

Additional Enjoyment:

Ōhama Beach is designated as a national natural monument, known for its beautiful sandy beach where around 30 loggerhead sea turtles visit annually for egg-laying. In the immediate vicinity of the beach, there is the “Umigame Museum Caretta,” where Hamataro, the world’s oldest loggerhead sea turtle (born in 1950), is kept.

 

 

 

 

Event Summary

Akamatsu Shrine

Period
October 3, 2024

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