Takiji Yuriko Award
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (1975) award
Hashimoto Mudo
はしもと むどう
Hashimoto Mudo
Aliases:
橋本 淳一
Pen Names:
Hashimoto Mudo（Haiku pen name (real name Junichi Hashimoto)）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1903-04-11 （Kita-Inoue Village, Meito District, Tokushima Prefecture (now Aizumi Town, Itano District)）
- Died
- 1974-10-09 age 71
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Kita-Inoue Village, Meito District, Tokushima Prefecture (now Aizumi Town, Itano District) → Tokyo (Fukagawa, Ginza, Tsukishima)
Career
- Occupations
- Haiku poet, Editor, Co-founder/executive of a sweets shop, Apprentice clerk
- Active Years
- 1922-1974
- Affiliations
- Soun (submitted haiku; studied under Ogihara Isensui), Hata (proletarian haiku magazine; founding participant), Haiku Seikatsu (founded; served as editor), New Haiku People's Federation (founding participant), Sanma (haiku magazine; co-founded), Tsukigase (sweets shop; co-founder, later executive)
- Memberships
- New Haiku People's Federation
- Influenced By
- Ogihara Isensui, Kuribayashi Issekiji, Yokoyama Rinji
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kozuka Elementary School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Kozuka Elementary School
Country:
Japan
After graduation he served as an apprentice at Okumura shop; at 14 he was transferred to the Tokyo branch in Fukagawa.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Takiji & Yuriko Prize | Peerless Wife | — | Takiji & Yuriko Prize Selection Committee | winner |
Takiji & Yuriko Prize
1975
Work:
Peerless Wife
Organization:
Takiji & Yuriko Prize Selection Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Hashimoto Mudo Haiku Collection 'Rude Wife'
1954 HaikuA representative collection containing haiku that combine a popular sensibility, humor, and a rebellious spirit.
common people's lifewifehumorrebellious spiritfree-form haiku
Hashimoto Mudo Second Haiku Collection 'Good Wife, Foolish Mother'
1964 HaikuA second collection centered on verses that capture the subtleties of domestic life and daily scenes.
homecommon people's lifeimages of womenhumor
Peerless Wife: Haiku Collection by Hashimoto Mudo
1973 HaikuOne of his late-life collections; posthumously awarded the Takiji & Yuriko Prize in 1975.
postwarliterature of the peoplewifedomestic irony
Complete Haiku Collection of Hashimoto Mudo
1977 HaikuA posthumously published complete collection compiling haiku from across his career.
lifelong versescommon people's lifefree-form haiku
Mother's Hometown: Haiku Collection by Hashimoto Mudo
2009 HaikuA later compilation focusing on haiku related to Tokushima; a posthumous reissue/selection.
hometownmotherreminiscence
Bibliography
- Hashimoto Mudo Haiku Collection 'Rude Wife', Miraisha, August 1954.
- Hashimoto Mudo Second Haiku Collection 'Good Wife, Foolish Mother', Miraisha, July 1964.
- 'Peerless Wife: Haiku Collection by Hashimoto Mudo', Shosen-sha, September 1973.
- 'Hashimoto Mudo Haiku Collection', Kaitei Postwar Haiku Association (Postwar Haiku Authors Series 35), May 1977.
- Complete Haiku Collection of Hashimoto Mudo, Miraisha, October 1977.
- 'Peerless Wife' (Shin Nihon Publishing, Shin Nihon Bunko), October 1983.
- Reissue of 'Rude Wife' (new edition), Miraisha, January 2009.
- 'Mother's Hometown: Haiku Collection by Hashimoto Mudo', Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Literature & Calligraphy (Kotonoha Bunko), March 2009.
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- free-form haiku (jiyuritsu)proletarian haiku tendenciespoetry of the common peoplehumor and rebelliousness
- Recurring Motifs
- wifefoodcommon people's lifeimprisonment (incarceration experience)hometown (Tokushima)
Legacy
As a central figure in the proletarian haiku movement, he advocated free-form haiku expressing the life of ordinary people. Despite prewar repression and imprisonment, his poetry retained humor and brightness. He was posthumously awarded the Takiji & Yuriko Prize for his collection 'Peerless Wife'. He is commemorated regionally, including a materials room in Tsukishima and a haiku monument in Naruto.
Museums
- Hashimoto Mudo Reference Room (Mudo Salon) Tsukishima, Chuo Ward, Tokyo (details unknown)
- Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Literature & Calligraphy (related holdings) Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture
Academic Societies
- New Haiku People's Federation
Archives
- Hashimoto Mudo Reference Room (Tsukishima, Tokyo)
- Collections at Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Literature & Calligraphy
In Popular Culture
- Legend that he invented anmitsu (a sweets dish), devised at Tsukigase shop
- Use of haiku lines as advertising copy for the sweets shop
- Haiku monument erected in Naruto City
Quotes
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I want haiku to be literature that survives by living together like folk songs, rice pounding songs and popular tunes that peasants sing while they produce.
Source: 'Rude Wife' (afterword) (1954) -
If I move, I'm cold.
Source: Haiku from prison -
Rude wife, each day you feed me something foolish.
Source: Haiku from the end of the war period
Trivia
- Often said to have devised the anmitsu dish (allegedly at the Tsukigase sweets shop)
- Used his own haiku as advertising copy for the sweets shop and commissioned posters via Dentsu
- Was implicated in the Shinko Haiku suppression incident and experienced detention
- Posthumously awarded the 7th Takiji & Yuriko Prize in 1975 for the collection 'Peerless Wife'