Only One Kagoshima Tree haiku contest

[Billie Wilson]

This year's Only One Kagoshima Tree haiku contest opened on the summer solstice June 22 and ends on September 23 the autumn equinox. 3 Prize Winners and Honorably Mentioned haiku will be announced at a Music & Haiku Symposium on Culture Day November 3, 2015 at the International University of Kagoshima.

Entries (with name, postal mailing address, email address, nationality, age, haiku club name, profession/study major) can be sent to:

Only One Kagoshima Tree Haiku Contest
International University of Kagoshima
8-34-1 Sakanoue 3F Building 7 c/o McMurray Kagoshima, Japan, 891-0197

The submission date dateline (postmarked envelopes) is September 23, so that contestants can make plans to attend the November 3rd musical celebrations of haiku.

  3 Winners and honorably mentioned haiku will be published in a 100-page memorial book (color). Certificates will also be mailed. We can pay one winner for his/her connecting flight, train, or ferry from points in Japan (ie. Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka) to get to the conference in Kagoshima, plus a hotel.
During the largest national cultural festival held in Japan, we are hosting the "Only One Tree Haiku Contest" in Kagoshima on November 3, 2015 at the International University of Kagoshima featuring an opera of haiku with violin, flute and piano accompaniment, address by Dr. Akito Arima the president of Haiku International, and panel of poets and  scholars who propose UNESCO list haiku as a world cultural heritage. Attendees receive autographed complementary copies of World Haiku Club Award winning books and the acclaimed "Mother's Voice" by Murasaki Sagano.

In all, 100 music, dance, tea ceremony, flower arrangement and poetry performances are scheduled during 2 glorious weeks this autumn in Kagoshima Prefecture: including 3 major haiku events on October 24, November 3, & November 7-8, 2015.

Updated information can be seen online here during the contest,

http://ajw.asahi.com/category/cool_japan/

More information - haikucanada [dot] enews [at] gmail.com