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Entry Rules for non-Japanese contributors

Entry Rules for non-Japanese contributors
Applicants Open to anyone
Deadline September 13, 2010
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 One person can send two pieces of Haiku (only unpublished works)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 November 2010
awards ceremony Prizes will be awarded at the Kumamoto City Municipal Gymnasium and Youth Center on November 27, 2010
Publications

Publications will only be sent to winning individuals during the latter half of Febuary 2011.
Winning haikus will be displayed on our homepage.

Judges Morio Nishikawa　(Professor at Kumamoto University)
Richard Gilbert (Associate Professor at Kumamoto University )
Prizes ・Kusamakura Taisho (Grand Prize) to one winner :
Round-trip airfare to Kumamoto and accomodations for 4 days, 3 nights at a local hotel and ￥50,000
・Chikasuitoshi Kumamoto Shou (Kumamoto ‘City of Artesian Waters’ Haiku Award) to one winner : commemorative gift
・Tokusen (Second Prize) to 8 Winners : ￥5,000
・Nyusen (Third Prize) to 20 winners
Please send your haiku to

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