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Salary-man Senryu "Sara-sen" Winners 2012
Dai-ichi Life Insurance announced their latest Sarariiman Senryuu (Salaried Worker Senryuu, サラリーマン川柳) competition winners. I'm late to the party by a couple months, but this time was the 25th year for the competition. In this sara-sen competition, people submit and vote on the best humorous senryu that come from the daily life of salaried workers and the news. Senryu are like
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Yanagihara Kanako Senryu Haiku
Mon, Sep 21 2009 06:10
| humor, japan, Kanako Yanagihara, Senryu
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Kanako Yanagihara is so popular these days, that shop assistants are starting to impersonate her right back! I heard a shop full of assistants doing their best Kanako schtick, so a senryu haiku came to mind:
君は今
kimi wa ima
加奈子さんより
kanako san yori
柳原
yanagihara
What I mean is, "you're more Yanagihara than Yanagihara Kanako".