Hagiwara Sakutaro Award
2 appearances
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Edition 15 (2007) nominee
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Edition 23 (2015) award
Kawada Ayane
かわた あやね
Kawada Ayane
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1940-09-22 （Qiqihar, Manchukuo (now Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China)）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Born in Qiqihar (Manchukuo) → Japan (active) → Resides in Italy
Career
- Occupations
- poet
- Active Years
- 1969-
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musashino College of Music | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Musashino College of Music
Country:
Japan
Dropped out
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize | Gan no Yo | — | Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize Committee | winner |
Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize
2015
Work:
Gan no Yo
Organization:
Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Sora no Jikan (Poems)
1969 poetryEarly poetry collection mixing abstract imagery with fragments of daily life.
timeimagery
Pisa Street
1976 poetryA collection themed on urban landscapes and memories.
citymemory
Gan no Yo
2015 poetryOne of her notable late works. Delicately depicts movement, memory, and solitude; awarded the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize in 2015.
migrationmemorysolitude
White Night
2017 poetryA collection of short poems traveling between nature and the inner world.
natureinner world
Bibliography
- Sora no Jikan (Spider Publishing, 1969)
- Pisa Street (Seidosha, 1976)
- Himei (Shiyosha, 1982)
- Circus Night (Seidosha, 1984)
- Morning Cafe (Seidosha, 1986)
- Chamber of Air: Dream Notes (Shoshi Yamada, 1991)
- Spherical Seeds (Shichosha, 1993)
- Collected Poems of Ayane Kawada (Shichosha, 1994)
- Mud (Alice-sha, 2000)
- Yunnan (Shichosha, 2003)
- Those Vanishing Letters (Midnight Press, 2007)
- The Driftwood Person (Midnight Press, 2009)
- Holding on to Mosquito Larvae (Midnight Press, 2012)
- Gan no Yo (Shichosha, 2015)
- White Night (Shoshi Shigosen, 2017)
- The Swaying Ship (Arts & Crafts, 2022)
- The Stork's Nest Circles (Arts & Crafts, 2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- abstract and symbolic imageryfragmentary short-poem styledepiction of inner landscapes
- Recurring Motifs
- birds (geese)movement and travelwater and flowmemory
Legacy
A poet active from the postwar period to the present, she expanded a distinctive poetic world even in later years and was highly recognized, receiving the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize in 2015.
Archives
- National Diet Library (holds works)
Trivia
- In 2015 she won the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize for 'Gan no Yo'; at 74 she was the oldest recipient of the prize.
- Born in Manchukuo (Qiqihar); currently resides in Italy.
- Dropped out of Musashino College of Music.