Tōta Gendai Haiku Newcomer Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1983) award
Hijiri Miyairi
みやいり ひじり
Miyairi Hijiri
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1947-01-01 （Nagano Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- haiku poet
- Active Years
- 1968-
- Influenced By
- Ryūta Iida, Shigenobu Takayanagi
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Kira (Unmo) Prize (Honorable Mention) | — | — | Kira (magazine) | 佳作 |
| 1973 | Haiku Kenkyu Fifty-Poem Contest (First Honorable Mention) | — | — | Haiku Kenkyu (magazine) | 佳作第一席 |
| 1983 | Modern Haiku Association Newcomer Award | — | — | Modern Haiku Association | 受賞 |
Kira (Unmo) Prize (Honorable Mention)
1971
Organization:
Kira (magazine)
Result:
佳作
Haiku Kenkyu Fifty-Poem Contest (First Honorable Mention)
1973
Organization:
Haiku Kenkyu (magazine)
Result:
佳作第一席
Modern Haiku Association Newcomer Award
1983
Organization:
Modern Haiku Association
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Seibo-chō
haiku collectionOne of Miyairi's haiku collections, containing short poems centered on personal memory and observations of nature.
naturememoryfamily
Sennen
haiku collectionA collection reflecting on the passage of time and a sense of long history.
timehistorynature
Yūhi
haiku collectionContains poems that portray play, deviation, and the intersections of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
everyday lifedeviationplay
Kurohiko
haiku collectionA collection notable for darker tones and shadowed imagery.
shadowdeathnature
Tsukiike
haiku collectionA haiku collection with tranquil natural depictions, often of the moon and reflections on water.
moonwater surfacetranquility
Shōki-numa
haiku collectionContains poems that evoke legendary figures and folk religious imagery.
legendfaithnature
Bibliography
- Seibo-chō
- Sennen
- Yūhi
- Kurohiko
- Tsukiike
- Shōki-numa
- Iida Jakuhitsu (work / reference)
- Kadyoku: The Life of Swordsmith Miyairi Yukihira and Miyoko
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- modern haiku concisionobservational, image-focused expression
- Recurring Motifs
- naturememoryfamilydeath
Legacy
A haiku poet active from the 1970s through the 1980s. He resumed activity in the 1980s and won the Modern Haiku Association Newcomer Award, but disappeared from the haiku scene in the early 1990s.
Academic Societies
- Modern Haiku Association
Trivia
- His father was the Living National Treasure swordsmith Miyairi Yukihira.
- He temporarily stopped writing haiku after his mother's death in 1974 and resumed in 1980.
- He won the Modern Haiku Association Newcomer Award in 1983.