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Yoshihiro Hagioka

はぎおか よしひろ

Hagioka Yoshihiro

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1950-01-01 （Nara Prefecture）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
tanka poet, high school teacher, principal, instructor, editor-in-chief
Active Years
1974-
Affiliations
Editor-in-chief, Yamamay, Sankeigakuen Nara Tomigaoka School — tanka instructor
Influenced By
Toshio Maeto

Education

Doshisha University
Faculty of Letters / English Literature
Period: 1969-1973
Year of Graduation: 1973
Country: Japan

Awards

Japan Kajin Club Prize
2024
Work: Urushi Densetsu
Organization: Japan Kajin Club
Result: winner
Japan Kajin Club Kinki Block Excellent Award
2013
Work: Kinya
Organization: Japan Kajin Club (Kinki Block)
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Lineage of the Sky

1994 tanka collection

Kizuyo

2005 tanka collection

Kinya

2012 tanka collection

Shuroo

2017 tanka collection

Urushi Densetsu

2024 tanka collection

What River Am I — The Underlayers of Toshio Maeto's Songs

2007 essay/criticism collection

Rest. Flowers.

2017 essay/criticism collection

Bibliography

  • Lineage of the Sky (Sunagoya Shobo, 1994)
  • Kizuyo (Hokutosha, 2005)
  • Kinya (Kadokawa, 2012)
  • What River Am I — The Underlayers of Toshio Maeto (Hokutosha, 2007)
  • Shuroo (Nagarami Shobo, 2017)
  • Rest. Flowers. (Hokutosha, 2017)
  • Urushi Densetsu (publication details unclear; awarded 2024)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Modern tanka grounded in traditionConcise, image-focused poetic style
Recurring Motifs
naturelocalityfamily

Legacy

Yoshihiro Hagioka is a practitioner of contemporary tanka active in regional poetic circles; he has worked as an educator and editor. His recent work received the Japan Kajin Club Prize.

Academic Societies

  • Japan Kajin Club

Trivia

  • Teaches tanka courses at Sankeigakuen Nara Tomigaoka school.
  • Serves as editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine "Yamamay".