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TOKYO—TheMarutay-ーa O扭tsu Fireworks Co. おjust戮tiny,f柳ily-i)wiもd business that doe幼t employ more than 80 peひpleat肌y onietiine. But \vhen Summer approaches wれh iiscaleii-datv6《festiva1events, the fi,gets arim of orders fro ma11over theworld.
For Maru旨ama isal"d-ing supplier of pyrotechnics
ゅere,s nothing better than 'hanabi.,,,
Theみpaドse didn,tin-yent fire^^orics. The Chinese pro"bly did ages ago and: e vei:;5>1),o dye Use came 6ut with imitations. But in their own d—r f朋Moi]i the jTaii-anese simplyprひ(iu(jもd the
And thei?mQstぉ卿-atic intiovatioivおiii thも
that are in a class by them-;shap"f the projectile^ y selves. The usualFourth of isn,t tiie familiar cyliiTde1^ Jiili^ stuff justp^ps and of UiらWestern-style sky-sizzles, ,uttoズirfB^v(w:ks af,, rocketThもJapanese "hail-ficionados what Jれan turns abi,,is a ballof krばリ邓eir
out are wQrks 6f art. Japanese "hanabi,,ーliter-
pa eke d with incendiary chもmic纽JS""and the globular
ucぃis the)vayits burst cliangescblor 二like from red to blue to yellow. One kiivd of shell,the ,ouble-pぉtii chrysanthemum, actu-拜Hy d卿the chamelcioiiic bれぉix times. , :.TThe trickおin the waj^
iiU6theshe11.At the corも isぉbuまingカhargieゅiゅ hurls the incendiary €le-m她ts in alldire"Jions.与 duhd it, in coti(ientrミ6 layers, arもきds of various ni与ter-ぉIs tliatぉroduceidれose lvuej3--strontitim iPpt rゃd, coppゅfoivblMe,aluttiiiiuin for white aridnatolitim for yellow. Thelもyers burn〗n succeぉioii,froin the inner ones to the outer.
Another Ja^p^nese touch to fii^eworks^Aiaking: the me-terial used pack "1thも chemicals in iJie she11is just I)la in coolcedrke."It,sstiもi:y
al!y, ire flowers" explode shape is wjiat Droduces into sky-filling bouquets of those welレc6ntufed Christ-dazzling incandescense.'mas trees in the sky, Theisparidもswirlalid)Uitlikettte sityroeket^ttie shinmier inalinost &11coL ' balldo e si it shoot off on it^ 01of tれe palette, an abso- own power. It,s sent aloft lute delight to watch. by a powder charge in a men
"Wedon,t nもe4 any sales tar tube so its entire pay- • •
agents. Peopleふomぉto us,,,load goes into creating the andlight and just right for sayきKyosuke Ogatsu, the Mossoms off ire for which th e purpose," Og atsu expl M a I"utay a mas vice-president and a12th gene]ration member of a family that has been ma king fireworks si nee the nth century. AbQut 70 peir cent of the comp&ny,s hand-crafted products are soHoverseaS) mostly to the U.S. but also to the Philip. pines, Malaysia, West Germ. an3^, Italy and France.
The Japanese products are exp咖ive. The standard
the"hanabi,, are rertひ、vn.
Th e Japanese加akers also' ForaH itsrenown,thein-have nearly three cetduries dustry has pro1^1ems fce印-(rf tradition behind them.,ing itselfgむing.The 200 Ogateu,s17th ceiitury an、 makers allover the country cぉtorinade powders for the ate mostly smallcQncents signalfires used by the war- doing seasonalwork. "The
loads. In the next century*
employees are^mostty^^^ld
the family was iiirning out people the yoimgstersd(m,t (fireworks for public enter- like the job becauseit,s too
tahiment^
Scores of fireworks festivals are held in Japanそvery
smkller firc^wo义l^s of the| that goesinlo the making of kind thatゾunioi:s can playthesesuninver ci^owd pleぉ,
chrj^santheitti^msliens — sosummei:v印any of them wHh called because iぉey burst a hisもoirioiin^inkny yeぉs in CO n ft trie rings fire in ' back The biぉgest one in a shape resembling that of , TolcyoおtheSumida RiVer the nationalMossom,cost^ show during which M a rut 二 多2,304. along with other' ay a ma and its archrival, spark"ng seits. (H<?soyq^ KakoCo.,やiもfor
1t,stheBigBきrtha of allthe most stunning display, pyrotechnics — a t、vo-foQt The S腿ida event dates thicfccネmionballthatlights back to1773.
up theゅy in a brilliant dis-) ^JThe factゅait Japanese绅vei^e. They require the p, ay thatleaves the viewers fireworks fans are so dぉ-disi)eri^a1offireworks-mak-gaspinginwondeiv eliminating accoUnts to a mg equipment in smallsh,
Japando^ export alot of;lai^ge t)artjortlieタrtistry eds with no mi re: than three
or four wo A 一 e?ich. The sぉeds have to be stirrf^und^d by COii<ji*ete walls.
Since eveiything has ti) be ddiie by hand, the work is painstakingly slow. Itt^ke^ two montlis or mioi:e to fabricate just (me of the jumbl]j shells.
Alltold, iiierndustry does a steady多20 million busin-e;$s a year with a bout13 per cent of it coming froin overseas* Occasion,aUめthere are orかrs from the Self-Defense Forces for signalfla. res. And from the movie studios for mock explosives. "We have taken part in some of the biggest wars that you have seen on films> Ogatsu says proudly.
dangerous," says a spokes man of the J a j pan Fireworks IV^nufacturing在ssn.,,
Indもed, oneもii> a whik, a fireworks p,ant,l)lows up, rest!It in gi IV deaths and serレ ous hij畔ies, OneoftfteWo: rst yゅrs was in1975 when ' 28 accidents occured <?aus-' ing,ven fata!itiもs;nd injuries to144workers.
Stまregulations for the industry conきequenily are
with in theba(?k-yard, Indeed; half of the industrダs annu&l多3 million ovi^rseas trade are clarified as "toys*" But Japan's most im-portantcwstomersaiire large recreationalfirmきlike Disneyland in the US.and わtheir civic committees in charge of independence day celebrations and other such
crsThc car】y products were simple fireballs thrown into theヌky. ButihriHighitlie yもarさthe artists dち vised mf)re elaborate displays.
The realLeonardo Da Vinci of the trade wa, a pyrotechnist n样edぶisaku Aoki who brought somもexplosive materiar from Gei"' many in1880 and tinkered around witli these chemicals to introduce certainef-
occasions.
Why are they willing to payUioses冊prices? "Wellfects,
if you want to get the big-トAmong the secrets handed がSt bang for your buckdo wn by this fire-giver were there are enough of that formulas for fabricating :i_ "A Aノ the now-famous ch rysanthe-d狄where, says an么meri:mum and peony shells, can fireworks b?ff. if One thing that distin.
you want something artistic, guishes the Japane狄prod-
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