Japan's Shortest Letter Competition "One-stroke Keijo Award" Sakai Fukui January 24, 15:16
The winner of the "Ippei Keijo Award" in Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture, which is known as the shortest letter contest in Japan, has been selected. The theme of this event was "Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter".
Sakai holds a contest for the shortest letter in Japan every year, following a short letter that begins with "Ippei Keijo" sent to his wife by a warlord in the local community.
This time, with the theme of "Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter", there were 32,106 entries from Japan and abroad, and 40 prize-winning works, including five of the grand prize works, were announced and read by local junior high school students.
A letter from his grand prix, Mr. Hisako Kato (77) of Kyoto City, to his son who died of cancer, said, "You are listening to the sound of rain on the sick floor without closing the door. It's been a long time since the rain. "
On the other hand, the work of Yuki Nakane (17), a third-year high school student in Hokota City, Ibaraki Prefecture, who was also awarded the grand prize, said, "I always notice seasonal changes when I open my mother's lunch box." I thank my mother.
In addition, a letter from the second grader in the local Sakai city, Nagahide Mitsukun (8), who was selected as an excellent work, spelled out "To the Winter Insect." "What?"
Natsu Miyashita, a writer who served as a selection committee member, said, “There are many works written with free and flexible ideas, and I thought spring, summer, autumn and winter were very good themes.
This is the work of older people. " The award ceremony for the "One-stroke Keijo Award" will be held on April 26.