Ten students were indicted into Japanese National Honor Society this year.  At the ceremony, the Dr Sayo Kato Yotsukura Memorial Prize for Excellence in the Japanese Major was awarded to Lan Chen (2017 fall graduate) and Carly Deluca (2018 spring graduate). The award consists of a certificate and cash prize.

2018 UD Annual Japanese Haiku Contest Winners:

{Best in show; JAPN200, 201,202, 204}  Sam Katz

平和な巣                Peaceful nest
囀りリリリ            Twit-twit-twit-twittering
ネコが見る           Cat watching

[JAPN105]               Olivia Rorke

はなぐもり                  Blossom Haze*
しがつ、おねがい  April, please
いかないで                  Don’t go.

[JAPN106 & 107] Ying Luo

子供には                      Children
ふるい春歌                  Old spring songs
分からない                  Do not understand

[JAPN305/455]   Justin Sung

三日月が                      The crescent moon
朧にかくれ                  hides behind the mist
夜見張る                      watching over the night

Winners received their Haiku written on a Tanzaku by our resident calligrapher Inoue-sensei.