The artwork on the following pages are the winning entries of the annual nengajö, or New Year’s card, design contest for students taking Japanese language. The statewide contest is sponsored by the Hawaii Association of Teachers of Japanese and is open to the elementary, middle and high school students of teachers who are members of HATJ.
Awards are presented in the categories of most artistic, most original, most comical and “New Year’s in Hawai‘i” for each school level. The entries are judged on its artistic value, as well as on the correct “spelling” of the Japanese words that appear on the card and the form of the Japanese characters.
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Rana Harada, grade 12, Roosevelt High School — third place, original, high school.
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Reynn Oshita, grade 4, Mililani ‘Ike Elementary School — third place, original, elementary.
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Rayna Zhou, grade 11, Roosevelt High School — second place, Hawai‘i, high school.
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Mitsuki Soma, grade 4, Wilson Elementary School — third place, artistic, elementary.
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Brigitte Barton, grade 4, ‘Äina Haina Elementary School — second place, original, elementary.
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Hye Lim Kim, grade 11, Roosevelt High School — second place, artistic, high school.
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Noah Hui, grade 4, Mililani ‘Ike Elementary School — second place, comical, elementary.
