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Traditional CultureTraditional CultureThemes and Waka Poems by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess for the New Year's Poetry Reading
Traditional CultureTraditional CultureThemes and Waka Poems by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess for the New Year's Poetry Reading
Ceremony of the Utakai Hajime
(Imperial New Year’s Poetry Reading)
Themes and Waka Poems by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Prince and Crown Princess Akishino for the New Year’s Poetry Reading
- 2026: MEI (BRIGHT)
- 2025: YUME (DREAM)
- 2024: WA (HARMONY)
- 2023: TOMO (FRIEND)
- 2022: MADO (WINDOW)
- 2021: ZITSU (FRUIT)
- 2020: NOZOMI (HOPE)
Themes and Waka Poems by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress and Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess for the New Year’s Poetry Reading
- 2019: HIKARI (LIGHT)
- 2018: GO (WORD)
- 2017: NO (FIELD)
- 2016: HITO (HUMAN)
- 2015: hon (book)
- 2014: sei (quiet)
- 2013: ritsu (stand)
- 2012: kishi (shore)
- 2011: ha (leaf)
- 2010: hikari (light)
- 2009: sei (life)
- 2008: hi (fire)
- 2007: tsuki (the moon)
- 2006: emi (smile)
- 2005: Ayumi (walking)
- 2004: happiness
- 2003: town
- 2002: spring
- 2001: herbaceous plants
- 2000: time
- 1999: ao
- 1998: the road
- 1997: sugata
- 1996: seedlings
- 1995: song
- 1994: waves
- 1993: sky
- 1992: wind
- 1991: the forest