Sunday 13 August 2006, 02:48 PM by tomascermak
Okazaki is famous for fireworks, perhaps the most famous in Japan. Back in the 1600s, when the Tokugawa Shogunate was established, the stronghold of the family centered around the Mikawa region. Also a strategically important area because of its central location, the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu banned the production of gunpowder outside certain areas of Aichi, Gifu, Shizuoka and Niigata. This ensured that the family maintained a stranglehold on the production of gunpowder, and the technology required to do so.
