International Haiku Convention 2002 CONTENTS MASAOKA SHIKI INTERNATIONAL HAIKU AWARDS 2 Masaoka Shiki Innternational Haiku Awards Outline 8 Masaoka Shiki 12 Recipients 24 Memorial Lecture by Cor van den Heuvel 36 Memorial Lecture by Satya Bhushan Verma 44 Acceptance Speech by Wada Shigeki 45 21st CENTURY EHIME HAIKU PRIZES 46 21st Century Ehime Haiku Prizes Outline 48 Ishida Hakyo 49 Kawahigashi Hekigoto 50 Tomizawa Kakio 52 Nakamura Kusatao 55 Recipients 59 SHIBA FUKIO RISING HAIKU POET PRIZE 60 Shiba Fukio Rising Haiku Poet Prize Outline 63 Shiba Fukio 65 Prize Winners 67 RELATED EVENTS 68 Ceremony of Awards and International Haiku Symposium 68 Exhibition of Haiga (painting) with Masaoka Shiki's Haiku Translation 69 International Haiku Workshops 69 Venue 1 72 Venue 2 74 Cultural Exchange with Students of Hakata High School 76 Nanyo Ginko (Haiku tour in southern part of Ehime pref.) International Haiku Convention 2002 Copyright(c) 2003 Ehime Culture Foundation All rights reserved. Printed in Japan Ehime Culture Foundation 2-5-1 Dogo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-0843, Japan Phone: +81-89-927-4777 Web: http://www.ecf.or.jp Email:
[email protected] MASAOKA SHIKI INTERNATIONAL HAIKU AWARDS Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards Outline Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards, named after the founder of modern Japanese haiku, was established based on the principles set forth in the Matsuyama Declaration, adopted at the Shimanamikaido '99 Haiku convention in Matsuyama held in September 1999. We hope that the establishment of this award will attract people's attention to Masaoka Shiki as a globally recognized poet and to haiku as the shortest form of world poetry.