Traditional summer activities in Japan usually involve dressing up in Yukata/Jinbei (summer kimono), going to see fireworks somewhere and eating food on sticks from yakuza subsidiary street vendors.

This video was taken at Uji near Kyoto (where Byodo-in stands - that's the temple on the 10 yen coin). It was my first fireworks display in years and thus the first time I realised how much a fireworks display resembles making love to a beautiful woman by the fire. You start off slow and dazzle her with something she's never seen before:
"Hey is that I can see it from down here? It looks like it's shaped like "Kitty Chan"! Oh it is? How cuuuute!

Then you build up to a breathtaking, pulverising, non-stop barrage to take her breath away, all the time listening to cries of "sugooooiiii" and "dekaaaaiiii".

Coincidence? You be the judge.