Haiku Contest
Previous Prize Winners
The Results of the 1st HIA Haiku Contest
Haiku in Japanese
Japanese haiku are translated into English by Miyashita Emiko & Lee Gurga.
Judge
Inahata Teiko, Kaneko Tohta, Matsuzaki Tetsunosuke, Kogure Gohei, Yamazaki Hisao, Bohjo Toshiatsu, Abe Kanichi, Nagata Ryutaro, Yamada Hiroko, Takeshita Ryusai, Takaha Shugyo, Kurahashi Yohson, Yoshimura Hisashi, Murai Kazuichi, Tsunemoto Ushio, Kato Koko, Yoshino Yoshiko
Prize of HIA
mushi no ne no o-katamari wo to-risugu
I pass a huge mass
of cricket singing
- Kuwahara Saburo
Prize of HIA
himaraya no kaze ni hosaruru mugi no taba
the wind from the Himalayas
drying the sheaves
of wheat
- Misawa Haruko
Prize of HIA
mongoru no ginga ni chikaki pao domari
in Mongolia
I sleep in a native hut
close to the Milky Way
- Isoda Fukuko
Haiku in non-Japanese
Judge
Satoh Kazuo, Hoshino Tsunehiko
Prize of HIA
powdered snow—
a crow's eyes above
the no parking sign
Alan J. Summers (U.K.)
Prize of HIA
flash of lightning
children laugh
behind curtains
Prime Patricia Christine (New Zealand)
Prize of HIA
summer noon-
shadow of chestnut trees
accross the street
Bogoljub T. Mihajlovic (Yugoslabvia)