Ten people, including high school students from Niigata prefecture, were selected as the winners of the "Utakai Hajime" held at the Imperial Palace in the new year.
The theme of the beginning of this song was "Window", and nearly 14,000 tanka songs were sent from all over Japan and overseas.
Ten of these were selected, including Koji Namba (15), a first-year high school student in Kamo City, Niigata Prefecture, and Tadashi Nishimura (85) in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture.
Of these, Mr. Namba, the youngest, said that he wrote something that came to his mind while looking out at the window seat during class at school. There is also. I made a song in the same words as I thought in my daily life. "
In addition, Mr. Nishimura, the oldest person, said that he made a song of the scene seen in early spring in Toyama prefecture by interweaving "quiet" and "moving". I am very happy. I hope that this song will make everyone in Toyama proud of the charm of the area. "
On the other hand, literary critic Akimasa Kanno (91) was selected as the "Meshiudo" nominated by His Majesty the Emperor to sing a song.
The beginning of the song is to be thoroughly implemented at the Imperial Palace and Palace on the 18th of next month, and the songs of the 10 winners and their servants will be performed along with the songs of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and the imperial family. ..