The event also featured poems by other members of the Imperial family and 10 by members of the public selected from 16,250 poems submitted from around Japan and overseas, as well as poems by the jury ...
The annual ceremony of the Utakai Hajime, or the Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading, took place in the Matsu-no-Ma room of ...
Japanese Emperor Naruhito, in a poem recited at the annual New Year's Poetry Reading on Wednesday, expressed how he was ...