Only those poems written by the applicant and not published anywhere else shall be accepted. The poems are to be written in hand or using a word processor by the applicants themselves. Please be advised that the Haiku entries will not be returned.
ITO EN shall hold the copyrights for the announcement and publication of the winning entries.
Awards will be revoked for any poems found to be plagiarized, to have been submitted for other contests or publications, or to closely resemble other poems.