Haiku Koshien is a nationwide tournament held in Matsuyama, the home of Masaoka Fumiaki who established modern haiku every year, to organize a team with five high school students to compete for haiku performance and appreciation I will.

In the final match of the 19th, Tokuyama High School in Yamaguchi, which will be entering the finals match with the opening high school in Tokyo aiming for the third consecutive match of the tournament, has played.

The theme of the final is "Kiyoraku", in the general warfare with two to two tie points, Tokuyama High School wrote "Hokusai's dragon flying away mountain Shimizu (Yamashimizu)" It was.

This is an expression of how the rising drags depicted by the Ukiyoe painter Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period rise vigorously to the height, and it seems likely to jump out of the picture.

Tokuyama High School played his first victory, following this phrase being highly appreciated and overtook the capital general.

Tokuyama High School's 3rd year Shintoshi Tadanobu who wrote a phrase in the final champ says, "I am happy to be able to win the race, the finalists enjoyed criticizing each other's haiku very much and I enjoyed it very much." It was.

In the individual section, the phrase Mr. Kohei Momohara of the 2nd grade of Konan High School in Okinawa Prefecture was chosen as Best of the Year.