Three down

After more than 100 pieces, setting aside 54 pieces, I finally selected the piece for submission to this year's Onchikai Shodo Exhibition 温知会書道展.
 
The 54 pieces that I set aside:

 
A candidate which was not submitted:

 

The next one would be The New Year Exhibition of Sankei Sho International Association 産経国際書展新春展 with its deadline in November, which I have been more or less working on in parallel with this recently submitted piece.