Haiku Contest
Previous Prize Winners
The Results of the 9th HIA Haiku Contest
The Award ceremony for the Ninth HIA Haiku Contest was held at Tokyo Kaikan from 11:00 till 14:00, on monday November 19th, 2007. The six prizes were presented to the winners by representatives of the four Japanese haiku organizations and the two companies sponsoring the prizes. Lectures by Dhugal J.Lindsay and the reception party followed.
The 9th HIA Haiku Contest
Sponsored by Haiku International Association
Supported by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Japan Times
Number of submissions
Japanese haiku: 934
Non-Japanese haiku: 404
The announcement and comments on the winning haiku
The announcement of the winners of the Japanese haiku and comments were given by Yamazaki Hisao (Director of HIA).
The announcement and the comments on the non Japanease haiku were given by Kiuchi Toru (Director of HIA).
Haiku in Japanese
Translations by Miyashita Emiko & Lee Gurga
Judge
Kaneko Tôta, Inahata Teiko, Takaha Shugyô, Kogure Gôhei, Arima Akito, Hoshino Tsunehiko, Bôjô Nakako, Kurahashi Yôson, Nagata Ryûtarô, Yamazaki Hisao, Miyazu Akihiko, Ôkubo Hakuson, Yamazaki Satoshi ,Yasuhara Yô, Katô Kôko, Yamada Hiroko, Ôtaka Mukai, Kashiwabara Min'u
The Haiku International Association Award
tsuki no kyaku ipponmichi o kaeri keri
Kato Chieko
the moon-viewing guest
has gone back home
along the unforked road
asshiji no ame no akaruki fukkatsusai
Imada Kiyono
it rains
brightly in Assisi
on Easter
The Association of Haiku Poets Award
hitorii no kagee no gotoku fuyugomori
Amaoka Utsuhiko
I live alone
as if in a shadow play
winter seclusion
The Modern Haiku Association Award
konoha chiru pantomaimu no shirozukume
Itô Tae
leaves falling—
a mime dressed
in all-white
The Association of Japanese Classical Haiku Award
ôkata wa shôwa no nioi sho o sarasu
Aoki Misako
mostly the smell
of the Showa Era
I air my books
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Award
mizu sukuu yô ni hotaru o sukui keri
Watanabe Michiko
like scooping water
I've scooped up
a firefly
The Japan Times Award
hachigatsu wa omoshi shôwa o ikishi mi ni
Kunisawa Rinpû
August is heavy
for one who has lived through
the Shôwa Era
Haiku in non-Japanese
Judge
Kiuchi Toru, Kimura Toshio
Prize Winners - Selected by Kiuchi Toru
a firefly
upon a crib:
baby's eyes twinkle
David Simmonds (Trinidado Tobago)
above Danube
sea-gulls and clouds
hide-and-seek in the blue
Mihailovič Stevan (Serbia)
Prize Winners - Selected by Kimura Toshio
cut down forest—
behind the deer antlers
waxing moon
Verica Zivkovic (Serbia)
at the waterfall
sometimes I feel an answer
sometimes . . . the wind
Patricia J. Machmiller (U.S.A)
Honorable Mentions - Selected by Kiuchi Toru
At the waterfall
ignoring the babble;
a nightingale sings
Adina Enachescu (Romania)
I'll call him “Issa” . . .
the fly who sits on my hand
and says “Just resting . . . ”
Erry ball (U.S.A.)
winter walk
my sonny hands me
the mist of his breath
Dorota Pyra (Poland)
mending tattered nets
the fishermen pose
for the painter
Rosie Roumeliotis (Greece)
Honorable Mentions - Selected by Kimura Toshio
the fine evening mist
erases the lake's far shore
a bird's screech remains
Sam Yada Cannarozzi (France)
awakening
the rain from my dream
still falling
Grzegorz Sionkowski (Poland)
Spring evening
dew in the lilies
the moon in the dew
Dubravko Korbus (Croatia)
day moon
dotting the snowy hillside
five black cows
Terry Ann Carter (Canada)