You can no longer get to Lake Biwa by boat over the mountains via the “Incline” (left), but if you can get over there by more mundane means, as noted by Bob on Pure Land Mountain, There is an International Fireworks Symposium (mouse over the text for magic translations from Rikai.com) next week in Otsu with exhibitions every night at various locations around the lake. They’ll certainly shoot the works to try to outshine each other, so there could be some terrific shows. The tracks dating from 1890 lead from Kyoto’s canals pictured in recent posts over the mountains to the lake.