The "NHK National Haiku Tournament" was held in Tokyo on the 27th to introduce excellent haiku sent from all over the country.
This tournament is held every year by NHK and NHK Gakuen, but due to the influence of the new coronavirus, it will be held publicly for the first time in two years.
More than 36,700 works were submitted, and three haiku were selected for the grand prize.
Of these, Reiko Kaihara's (88) work from Hiroshima Prefecture, "The Way of the Rain Clouds and the Light of Soba Flowers," is a phrase about a trip with a friend who went out while worrying about the whereabouts of the clouds as the typhoon approached. , The contrast between the light and dark, where gray rain clouds and white buckwheat flowers are blooming all over, was evaluated as beautiful.
Misako Sugimoto (61) from Hyogo Prefecture told her that her husband, who was working overseas, died shortly before returning to Japan, and that he would inform his close friends because of the corona. The rainbow I saw when I couldn't do it is a phrase that remains in my heart.
She was evaluated as a pure and transparent work that expresses the tense heart that she had just lost.
The work of Nazuna Suzuki (46) from Hokkaido, "Lighting all at once and astonishing the sacred tree," said that the moment the Christmas tree was lit, the tree itself was surprised, so people watching over the lighting. It was evaluated that the way of understanding was fresh and fun.
The tournament will be broadcast on E-Tele from 2:30 pm on May 1st.