Ōmagari Hanabi — National Fireworks Competition (全国花火競技大会「大曲の花火」) 全国花火競技大会「大曲の花火」
750,000 spectators, 18,000 fireworks, 28 companies: the Prime Minister's Prize since 1910.
It began in 1910 as entertainment for the festival of Suwa Shrine, under the name Ōu Six Prefectures Fireworks Conference (奥羽六県煙火共進会); it was renamed National Fireworks Competition in 1915, and it has over a hundred years of unbroken history and five ministerial awards, the highest number among the roughly fifteen fireworks competitions in Japan.
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