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is a dangerous thing. More people have died celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

is not to be handed by children; rather they should be left to the adults who’ve been drinking all day.

is an event where the first ten minutes is ooohhh and ahhh and the last fifty minutes is just everyone wondering if this is the finale

The first ten minutes of the fireworks show will be ooohhh and ahhh, the last fifty minutes will be wondering if this is the finale

is a like a finger, pointing us to the stars that remain eternally in the background, a testament to their ephemerality and the stars immortality.

is not a symbol of the ephemeral, but of luxury, of the boredom of peacetime insofar as it involves otherwise useless gunpowder fired extravagantly into the midsummer-night sky.

One could perhaps think of fireworks as a symbol not of the ephemeral but of luxury. The Japanese like to think that fireworks have a uniquely Japanese history, but in fact they were first introduced from either Eng­land or China. The art of fireworks depends on gunpowder, and they originated as a by­ product of the weapons of war. Once Japan was closed to outside contacts and the sho­ guns rivals were subdued, the gunpowder that the Japanese had gone to much trouble to master languished in disuse. One could even say that the refinement of fireworks in the Edo period was a result of the boredom of peacetime. The otherwise useless gunpowder was fired extravagantly into the midsummer-night sky. This was luxury with a touch of the ephemeral.

is not a tattoo on the sky; the many-colored dots of fireworks permeate the night and are no more.

Yosano Akiko wrote a number of poems about fireworks, including the one just quot­ ed. Not a tattoo on the sky, the many-colored dots of fireworks permeate the night and are no more.”

's beauty is less about ephemerality as it is about expendability. The art of fireworks is an art of complete consumption in which nothing remains behind.

Fireworks are often called the art of the ephemeral, but I’m not so sure about this. I wonder whether the love of fireworks really has anything in common with rever­ence for the cherry blossoms, though both scatter and fall bravely. One can certainly say, as Ogatsu Kyosuke did in his book “Fireworks: The Art of Fire”, that “Fireworks blossom gorgeously in the sky and next moment fade away. It is this expendability that constitutes their beauty; the art of fireworks is an art of complete consumption in which nothing remains behind.” No doubt many would agree.

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