Kikakuza Haibun Contest
Subject: Kikakuza Haibun Contest - please publicise
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:21 +0000
Dear friends and colleagues,
I have received a request from Prof. Yuasa and Stephen Gill to help
publicise an upcoming haibun competition to be held in both Japanese and
English. I am reliably informed that this is Japan's first haibun
competition of any significance in the modern era.
I would be grateful if you, as an individual or organisation, would
publicise this information in any appropriate medium at your earliest etc.
Please maintain the integrity of the text below.
Sorry for the inconvenience if this is a duplication.
Best wishes, John Carley
The text circulated by Nobuyuki Yuasa and Stephen Henry Gill follows:
Kikakuza Haibun Contest - English Section
Kikakuza is a group of haikai (linked-verse) poets founded in 2005 in honour of Kikaku (1661~1707), Basho’s celebrated disciple. We wish to help
revive the tradition of haibun which gradually went out of favour after the
Meiji Restoration. For this purpose, we have created a Haibun Contest and
invite foreign writers to enter. The contest will be judged by Nobuyuki
Yuasa and Stephen Henry Gill. The results of the contest will be announced
in the Kikakuza Bulletin and on its homepage, and awards will be sent
directly to the winners. All entries must meet the following conditions.
Conditions of Entry
1 Subject: Free, but discretion must be used to avoid slander and obscenity.
2 Style: No restrictions, but special attention must be paid to honour the spirit of haikai.
3 Length: Not more than 30 lines, each line of not more than 80 spaces long.
4 Haiku: At least one haiku should be included.
5 Format: Print on a sheet of A4 size paper and write at the bottom your name and your pen name if you have any, together with your address and telephone number. Your privacy will be strictly protected, and the judges will not see your names.
6 Deadline: All entries should reach the following address by 31 January 2009. Entries received after this date will not be accepted.
Kikakuza (c/o Kifuu Futagami)
117-1 Nakogi, Hadano-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan 257-0024
7 Entry Fee: All entrants residing in Japan are kindly requested to pay
2000 yen into the following postal money order account and send Kikakuza a
receipt (or a copy of it) together with your haibun.
Postal Money Order: 00250-4-95332 Kikaku no Kai
No entry fee will be requested from those living abroad. We
cannot accept personal checks because it is so costly to process them.
8 Questions: All questions should be sent to the Kikakuza address above or
by fax to the following number: 0463-82-6315.
9 Sample haibun: Sample haibun can be read at the following sites:
http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/category/haibun/ (click
‘longer haibun’ page)
http://www.sosui.wordpress.com (both in English and Japanese)
http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages.all
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:01:21 +0000
Dear friends and colleagues,
I have received a request from Prof. Yuasa and Stephen Gill to help
publicise an upcoming haibun competition to be held in both Japanese and
English. I am reliably informed that this is Japan's first haibun
competition of any significance in the modern era.
I would be grateful if you, as an individual or organisation, would
publicise this information in any appropriate medium at your earliest etc.
Please maintain the integrity of the text below.
Sorry for the inconvenience if this is a duplication.
Best wishes, John Carley
The text circulated by Nobuyuki Yuasa and Stephen Henry Gill follows:
Kikakuza Haibun Contest - English Section
Kikakuza is a group of haikai (linked-verse) poets founded in 2005 in honour of Kikaku (1661~1707), Basho’s celebrated disciple. We wish to help
revive the tradition of haibun which gradually went out of favour after the
Meiji Restoration. For this purpose, we have created a Haibun Contest and
invite foreign writers to enter. The contest will be judged by Nobuyuki
Yuasa and Stephen Henry Gill. The results of the contest will be announced
in the Kikakuza Bulletin and on its homepage, and awards will be sent
directly to the winners. All entries must meet the following conditions.
Conditions of Entry
1 Subject: Free, but discretion must be used to avoid slander and obscenity.
2 Style: No restrictions, but special attention must be paid to honour the spirit of haikai.
3 Length: Not more than 30 lines, each line of not more than 80 spaces long.
4 Haiku: At least one haiku should be included.
5 Format: Print on a sheet of A4 size paper and write at the bottom your name and your pen name if you have any, together with your address and telephone number. Your privacy will be strictly protected, and the judges will not see your names.
6 Deadline: All entries should reach the following address by 31 January 2009. Entries received after this date will not be accepted.
Kikakuza (c/o Kifuu Futagami)
117-1 Nakogi, Hadano-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan 257-0024
7 Entry Fee: All entrants residing in Japan are kindly requested to pay
2000 yen into the following postal money order account and send Kikakuza a
receipt (or a copy of it) together with your haibun.
Postal Money Order: 00250-4-95332 Kikaku no Kai
No entry fee will be requested from those living abroad. We
cannot accept personal checks because it is so costly to process them.
8 Questions: All questions should be sent to the Kikakuza address above or
by fax to the following number: 0463-82-6315.
9 Sample haibun: Sample haibun can be read at the following sites:
http://hailhaiku.wordpress.com/category/haibun/ (click
‘longer haibun’ page)
http://www.sosui.wordpress.com (both in English and Japanese)
http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages.all
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