AWARDS OF THE 4TH HOSHI TO MORI
INTERNATIONAL TANKA CONTEST

JAPANESE CATEGORY

HOSHI TO MORI GRAND PRIZE
AOMORI/JAPAN TAI MATSUO
SAKANA-DEMO
TORI-DEMO-HITO-DEMO
NAKU-NATTE
KURE-TE-YUKU-MADE
UMI-WO-MITE-IRU



HOSHI TO MORI SUPPLEMENTARY PRIZE - FIRST
FUKUOKA/JAPAN KAZUO UEDA
KONO-UMI-NI
SAN-KOTSU-SARESHI
KIMI-NARIKI
NAMI-HITAHITA-TO
ASHI-NI-YOSE-KURU



HOSHI TO MORI SUPPLEMENTARY PRIZE - SECONDO
CHIBA/JAPAN CHIYO ASAHI
WAKAME-OI
UMI-YORI-AGARU
AMA-TACHI-NO
HI-WO-FURI-KOBOSHI
ISO-MICHI-WO-YUKU



ENGLISH CATEGORY

HOSHI TO MORI GRAND PRIZE
(NO CONTESTANT-QUALIFIED)



HOSHI TO MORI UPPLEMENTARY PRIZE
OSAKA/JAPAN PETER DUPPENTHALER
THE SMELL OF THE SEA
IN THE STREETS OF MY HOMETOWN
EXACTLY THE SAME
IN THIS PLACE FAR FROM MY HOME
WHERE NO PERSON KNOWS MY NAME



HOSHI TO MORI UPPLEMENTARY PRIZE
CANADA MARIANNE BLUGER
LATE IN BED TONIGHT
HOMESICK FOR THE COAST-HUSBAND
MURMURS "IT'S LIKE SURF"
THAT SOFT THROBBING DISTANT ROAR
OF TRAFFIC FROM THE CITY



HOSHI TO MORI SUPPLEMENTARY PRIZE
U.S.A HORST LUDWIG
Some summer evenings
the Angelus bells still ring
from the rich city,
which the sea once swallowed up
many enturies ago.



HOSHI TO MORI RUNNER-UP
ENGLAND DYLAN PUGH
WAVES SLOWLY ERODE
CLIFFTOPS WHERE WE USED TO PLAY
AS CAREFREE CHILDREN
I SIT BY YOUR GRAVE AND HEAR
SEAGULLS CALLING WITH YOUR VOICE



HOSHI TO MORI RUNNER-UP
SHIZUOKA/JAPAN TAKAYA YAMAMOTO
A grown-up once said
reflected colour of sky
makes the deep so blue.
But I do not believe it.
The deep is bluer than sky.



 PRIZE FOR STUDENT NO CONTESTANT-QUALIFIED

(SATURDAY) 8TH JUNE 2002

JUDGE
SPONSOR
JAMES KIRKUP/SELECTION COMMITTEE, HOSHI TO MORI
KAZUO ITO
             

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