Shiika Bungakukan Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1999) award
Yoko Mitsui
みつい ようこ
Mitsui Yōko
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1936-01-01 （Osaka Prefecture, Japan）
- Died
- 2014-01-02 （Yao, Osaka, Japan） age 78
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- poet
- Active Years
- 1962-2014
- Affiliations
- Member of Gendai Shijin-kai (Modern Poets Association), Organizer of Ikishe/Kaede Poetry Circle
- Memberships
- Gendai Shijin-kai (Modern Poets Association)
- Influenced By
- Jūsaburō Ono
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soai Women's Junior College | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| Osaka Literature School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Soai Women's Junior College
Country:
Japan
Listed as final formal education
Osaka Literature School
Country:
Japan
Studied under Jūsaburō Ono
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Gendai-shi Women Poets Prize (Modern Poetry Women's Prize) | Ukifune (Floating Boat) | — | Gendai-shi Women Poets Prize Committee | Winner |
| 1999 | Shika Bungakukan Prize (Poetry & Verse Museum Prize) | Letters Like Grass | — | Shika Bungakukan Prize Committee | Winner |
| 2008 | Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize | Flowers: Poem Collection with Haiku | — | Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize Committee | Winner |
Gendai-shi Women Poets Prize (Modern Poetry Women's Prize)
1976
Work:
Ukifune (Floating Boat)
Organization:
Gendai-shi Women Poets Prize Committee
Result:
Winner
Shika Bungakukan Prize (Poetry & Verse Museum Prize)
1999
Work:
Letters Like Grass
Organization:
Shika Bungakukan Prize Committee
Result:
Winner
Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize
2008
Work:
Flowers: Poem Collection with Haiku
Organization:
Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize Committee
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Ono City Poetry and Song Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (2009) award
Works
Major Works
Clean Journey
1962 PoetryAn early collection of poems showcasing lyrical sensibility.
early poetrylyricism
Ukifune (Floating Boat)
1976 PoetryOne of her notable works; the prize-winning collection from 1976.
memorywaterexistence
Letters Like Grass
1998 PoetryA mid-career collection exhibiting delicate use of language; won the Shika Bungakukan Prize in 1999.
languagenatureeveryday life
Flowers: Poem Collection with Haiku
2008 PoetryA collection mixing haiku and poems; awarded the Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize in 2008.
seasonsnatureshort-verse
Bibliography
- Clean Journey
- Daytime (Poems)
- Swamp: Yoko Mitsui Poems
- Color: Yoko Mitsui Poems
- Dream Stab
- Tama (Poems)
- Ukifune (Poems)
- You Have Come (Yoko Mitsui Poems)
- Spring Garden (Yoko Mitsui Poems)
- Collected Poems (Sunagoya)
- Record of the Day (Poems)
- Tapestry Stitch: Essays by Yoko Mitsui
- Mustard on the Border (Poems)
- The Wind Blows (Poems)
- Two Trams Coming Up
- That's Fine: Osaka Dialect Seasonal Notes
- Vegetable Garden (Poems)
- Love Songs: 100 Feelings, 100 Words
- Letters Like Grass
- Yoroshana: Cat Edition Osaka Dialect Seasonal Notes
- At the Yellow Bottom of the Rapeseed Field (Poems)
- Fudoki (Topography/Ethnography)
- Crape Myrtle
- Peach: Haiku Collection
- Flowers: Poem Collection with Haiku
- Rakuichi Rakudan (Edited Essays)
- Humanities: Yoko Mitsui Poems
- Lamp-color Fermentation
- Chestnut: Haiku Collection
- Autumn Bath
- Modern Poetry Library: Collected Poems of Yoko Mitsui
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyricalconcise, refined languageshort-verse forms incorporating haiku
- Recurring Motifs
- naturememoryeveryday detailslandscape and dialect of Osaka
Health
-
liver failureCause of death in 2014
Legacy
Regarded as one of contemporary Japan's notable women poets; praised for delicate linguistic sensibility and an Osaka-rooted perspective, leaving many poetry collections.
Academic Societies
- Gendai Shijin-kai (Modern Poets Association)
Archives
- National Diet Library (Japan) - holdings
Trivia
- Birth name was Sachiko Yamazo; she is known by the pen name Yoko Mitsui.
- She wrote works that incorporate Osaka dialect and local scenes.
- Recipient of the Gendai-shi Women Poets Prize, Shika Bungakukan Prize, and Ono City Poetry & Literature Prize.