Ending, a kaleidoscope shell with various colors of petals
| The opening Spring part, started on green peony starmines like a color of young leaves. Gone after single shell green peony with purple pistil,the reverse purple peony with green pistil. The end of spring part, a lot of pink shell of shells were filled over green comets like cherry blossoms. Next Summer part, Shooted out sunflowers continuously above blue like a sky peony starmines. it was just like scene of japanese summer day. Close on the heels of this, turned gold palm trees. it was end of summer. Autumn, a flower bed of chrysanthemums. enter the Japanese traditional round shells "Warimono". Shell with double pistil(call it"yaeshin") and tripple pistil(call it"mieshin"). That is most elaborate round shells in Japanese fireworks. That is the essence of "warimono" fireworks. Winter has come, silver peony(gin-botan) shells were launching continuously. Turned to white all over the sky in a moment. It remind us this 16 days of wintergames again. This segment ended with a kaleidoscope shell with flash starmines, that had various colors of petals. It resembled the emblem of the Nagano winter games. The Finally, a lot of gold crown shot out all at once. It turned into numberless gold powder that filled the sky over the stadium. Then it was all over. What feeligs filled our pyrotechnist's hearts at that time? It was not satisfaction or achievement but relief that all shells were shot as scheduled and with no accidents. "Strained 8 minutes" for pyrotechnists in charge--turned "dazzling times"for the audience at the stadium and in front of TV all over the world. And for us fireworks freaks, it was a "great 8 minutes". |
 Start of shoot,Green peony with purple pistil starmines and 10",12"peonys. |
 End of summer part, Gold palm trees are sighing in the wind. |
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 Autumn, warimono=round shell with multi pistils,This is the essence of japanese fireworks. |
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 Silver peony starmines. |