Winners at the beginning of the song will be decided 10 seniors, including 3rd grade high school students in Niigata City December 25 4:06
Ten people, including a third-year high school student in Niigata City, were selected as winners of the New Year's annual "Utakai", the first year in Reiwa.
The theme of this song was "Noboru", which received over 15,000 tanka from all over the country and abroad.
Among them, a third-year junior high school student in Konan-ku, Niigata-city, Shinri Shinoda (17), a wife of a priest at a temple in Moji-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fusako Awaya (60), and university staff in Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, Tsuchida Ten people including Mayumi (33) were selected.
Among them, Mr. Shinoda described the scene when he talked with his parents about his future career before taking the university examination, saying, "The most feeling that I am surprised. I'm really happy if I think that it was transmitted to other people. "
Mr. Awaya said that she wrote a song about her old school bag, which was used by her eldest daughter almost 20 years ago, to children in conflict areas such as Afghanistan. The whole family is surprised to be selected. "
Mr. Tsuchida wrote in the late summer when he caught the crow grass and felt how sad it was to save his life. I'm just surprised that I can really be chosen. "
On the other hand, Kyoko Kuriki (65), the singer, was selected as the "servant" appointed by the Emperor to sing the song.
The song of the 10 winners and the servants will be performed along with the songs of the Emperor and Empress and the Imperial Family at the beginning of the singing ceremony at the Imperial Palace and Palace on 16th of next month.