NHK National Haiku Tournament Three Phrases Win Grand Prize January 26 17:53
The NHK National Haiku Tournament, which introduces excellent haikus from around the country, was held on June 26 at the NHK Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo.
This competition is held every year by NHK and NHK Gakuen. About 78,000 works were sent to the "General Department" and the "Junior Department" for junior high school students and younger.
In the general section, 38 phrases were selected as special choices, and three works were selected as grand prizes.
Among them, the work by Yuji Kakitani of Osaka Prefecture (41), “The Sparrow is the Sparrow-Length Autumn Sky,” is a sparrow that cannot fly as high as other birds when Kakitani, who is blind, goes out to walk with her mother. In a phrase that wrote about how the autumn sky was moving, it was evaluated as `` From the expression 'sparrow's length', we noticed that all living things have a sky according to their height '' Was.
The work of Tone-san (46) in Nagano Prefecture, "The sound of a large jumping jump in three times" is a phrase in which Tone-san, who is born with hearing loss, wrote about the experience of a large jumping jump as a child.
The wind pressure of the rope that crosses right next to you when you plunge plunge, and the vibration transmitted to your arm when the rope starts to turn neatly are described as `` sounds '' and `` capturing moments that you may overlook, It is a real phrase that makes time slip in childhood. "
A work by Seto Taneda (73) in Tokyo, "Pick a picky day, pick up and pick up, butterflies in autumn," describes how a butterfly sucks the nectar of a hedge flower when the summer sun softens. According to the phrase, "It is reminiscent of flying a little closer to the ground, unlike spring and summer, where it flies lively, and it seems to be very autumn."
The event will be broadcast on NHK's E-Tele from 3:00 pm on the 15th of next month.