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Entry Rules for non-Japanese contributors

Entry Rules for non-Japanese contributors
Applicants Open to anyone
Deadline May 31, 2011　（Postmarked on this day OK） Received by May 31, 2011 (overseas only)
Application guidelines

Entry must be submitted by mail or via the homepage.
Each applicant can enter up to two haiku poems. Entries via the homepage are only possible in English .
Please include: name, current address, gender, e-mail address, and phone number

Fee

Free. One person can send two pieces of Haiku (only unpublished works)
Contest results Winners will be informed by mail in the middle of September 2011
awards ceremony Prizes will be awarded at the Hotel Kumamoto Terrsa on October 16. 2011
Publications

Publications will only be sent to winning individuals during the latter half of Febuary 2012.
Winning haikus will be displayed on our homepage.
Entry has already been finished.

Judges Morio Nishikawa　(Professor emeritus at Kumamoto University)
Richard Gilbert (Associate Professor at Kumamoto University )
Prizes ・Kusamakura Taisho (Grand Prize) to one winner :
Commemorative Items
・Chikasuitoshi Kumamoto Shou (Kumamoto ‘City of Artesian Waters’ Haiku Award) to one winner : Commemorative Items
・Tokusen (Second Prize) to 8 Winners : Commemoratve Items
・Nyusen (Third Prize) to 20 winners
Please send your haiku to

“Kusamakura” Haiku Competition Office
ｃ/o Bunka shinko Ka
( Cultural promotion Section ) City of Kumamoto
1-1 Tetorihoncho, Kumamoto City 860-8601 Japan
Application Form 　Application Form for Foreign Contributors.pdf