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11th World Children's Haiku Contest

11th Contest award winning haikus（ Japanese　 overseas ）

10th Contest award winning haikus（ Japanese　 overseas ）

World Children's Haiku Contest

11th World Children's Haiku Contest 2009-2010

Organized by: JAL Foundation 　Sponsored by: Japan Airlines　Supported by: UNICEF

　　Originating from Japan, Haiku is the shortest form of poetry in the world. In a short descriptive verse, it captures a moment in the poet’s life, or simply expresses the beauty of nature. Haiku is now enjoyed in many countries around the world.
　　JAL Foundation biennially organize 'World Children’s Haiku Contest', and we are happy to announce that the 11th contest is to be held this year. 　All winning haiku will be collected and published next year as an anthology titled Haiku By World Children.

The themed of the 11th contest is 'SCHOOL'.
　　School occupies an extensive part of children’s everyday life. It is a place where children meet and eventually part from their friends and teachers, where the amount of time experiencing joy and sorrow is as much as the time spent learning languages, science and other new knowledge. Through haiku these shimmering moments can be captured.

　　Through the contest, children are given the opportunity to compose haiku that will encompass their memories. The experience of composing haiku will also become a part of their pleasant memories of their childhood.

Impressions of Wind ,
'Haiku By World Children' 　Vol. 10
with 116 haikus
( winning haikus at the previous contest)
in Japanese and English
as well as in children's mother languages.

Composition & Artwork at the previous contest

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Qualifications

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AGE

Ages 15 and under/Elementary or junior high school student

COMPOSITION

One haiku entry per child

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Must be unpublished original work, either handwritten or typed.

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Haiku may be written on the artwork or on a separate piece of paper accompanying　the art

ARTWORK

Hand-drawn/hand-crafted original artwork by the child

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Any form allowed (water/oil-colored, black&white, wood-cut print, lithograph, paper cutwork, etc)

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Use A4 sized (210mm x 297mm) paper or larger　

　（US region : letter-sized or larger)

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No photographs and digital images accepted.

Application form　

(Please attach this application form to the back of submitted work)

Name, sex, age, address and contact information is required upon submission.

THEME

SCHOOL

DUE DATE

Dependent upon each JAL office.

Please check the list

and contact JAL office in your country or JAL Foundation office(Tokyo) for further details.　

For 11th contest, direct application to JAL Foundation was already closed.

Essentially you can submit haiku composition and artwork directly to JAL Foundation by interntional mail, in the circumstance of JAL offices being unavailable in your country or in any cases
you get lost, please make enquiries to JAL Foundation.

Address :

JAL FOUNDATION
Haiku Entry
JAL Building,　2-4-11, Higashi-shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku,
Tokyo 140-0002,　 JAPAN

INQUIRIES

FAX:	81-3-5460-5997
E-mai	w.chaiku@jal.com

★NOTE★

All rights of entry(composition & artwork)will be reserved by JAL Foundation.

How to make HAIKU
Click this! You will know how nice and easy HAIKU is!