Result of the Art Writer Award for High School Students, Essays in Japanese contest has been announced.
The High School Student Art Writer Grand Prize Selection Committee has decided the final results of the Japanese Essay Contest, announcing three Grand Prize winners, 3 Excellence Prize winners, 17 Selected Essays, and five School Prize winners.
9th High School Student Art Writer Grand Prize Japanese Essay
大 賞(in alphabetical order by author name)
Kumamoto Prefectural Second High School Eka Kudo Memories of Beauty
Yuma Mitanihara, Okayama Prefectural Soja Minami High School What is art to me?
Haruna Tomita, Akita Prefectural Akita High School Enjoying things that cannot be communicated
Eka Kudo focused on the works of Tomoaki Hamada, carefully researched the materials, and then delved into the subject with her own unique interpretation.
Based on his experience creating theater, Yuma Mitanihara accurately depicts the scenes on stage and the way he confronts his own emotions.
Haruna Tomita conveys her relationship with her art-producing colleagues with a unique sense of distance, opening up new possibilities for essays about her art-making experiences.
The Selection Committee announced the result of the Essays in Japanese contest; Grand Prize (three entries), Award for Excellence (seventeen entries), Winning Entries (thirty entries), and School Award (five entries).
The Art Writer Award for High School Students, Essays in Japanese
Grand Prize winners (Alphabetical order)
KUDO Kaika, Memory of Beauty, Kumamoto Prefectural Dai-ni Senior High School, Japan
MITANIHARA Yuma, What is Art for Me, Okayama Prefectural Soja-minami Senior High School, Japan
TOMITA Haruna, Enjoy Being “Uncommunicative,” Akita Prefectural Akita Senior High School, Japan
