The annual New Year's "Uta-kai" was held at the Imperial Palace on the 19th.
The theme of this year's ``Utakai Hajime'' was ``Japanese'', and more than 15,000 tanka poems were submitted from all over the country and overseas.
At the Imperial Palace, the songs of the 10 selected winners were first performed in an ancient style in front of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and other members of the imperial family.
Among them, Mizuho Miyamura (32), who works at the city hall in Kahoku City, Ishikawa Prefecture, recalls a conversation she had with friends when she was a university student majoring in Japanese literature. A friend who smiles and smiles, looks good in kimono, and becomes a mother.''
Mr. Miyamura was busy dealing with the Noto Peninsula earthquake that occurred on January 1st, and at one point considered declining to attend the opening of the song, but his boss at work said, ``I would like to provide Ishikawa Prefecture with a brighter topic.'' I want you to do that," and sent him off warmly.
This time, the youngest student, Hiyori Kanda (17), a second-year high school student from Niigata City, talked about her struggle with somehow agreeing with her friend's opinion, saying, ``I like that.''Even though I'm a Tsukewa Raidou, this love is true.'' I will only assert myself," he wrote.
Next, a song was performed by members of the imperial family, and Princess Seiko, the eldest daughter of the Prince Takamado family, said that when the crows returned to the forest at the shrine, which she sometimes visited, the area became dark in about 15 minutes, and she was able to accurately record the sunset time signal. He felt that this was the case, and he wrote a poem that says, ``Suddenly, the sound of the sound echoes through the lively autumn sky, and as the crow returns, I realize that it is dusk.''
At the opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival for the Disabled held in Kagoshima Prefecture last October, Princess Noriko, Princess Akishino, watched as local children cheered on the passing athletes from their stadium seats. To the players, the cheers from the children warmed the atmosphere,'' the poem read.
Prince Akishino visited the Tohoku region some 40 years ago in the fall and took a walk around Lake Towada in the early morning.He wrote a poem about the scene he saw when he took a walk around Lake Towada in the early morning, saying, ``Autumn leaves on the trees just beginning to change color reflected in the surface of Lake Towada in the early morning.'' .
The Empress was deeply moved by the fact that her eldest daughter, Princess Aiko, visited Hiroshima for the first time on a school trip as a third-year junior high school student and wrote in her graduation essay about the desire for peace that she deepened when she saw things like the Atomic Bomb Dome. When I visited for the first time, I felt a deep sense of peace.''
At the end, His Majesty the Emperor recited the song, ``When I see the smiling faces of the people I meet on my journey, I feel at ease.''
The Emperor wrote a poem about how he felt when he saw the smiling faces of the people who warmly welcomed him when he visited various places with the Empress.
The theme for next year's song session is ``Yume'', and you can use idioms like ``Yumeji'' or ``Yumeji.''
Entries will be accepted from January 19th to September 30th.