Japan Tanka Poets Club Award
1 appearances
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Edition 17 (1990) award
Chiyo Miyake
みやけ ちよ
Miyake Chiyo
Aliases:
杉田
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1918-01-07 （Nagoya, Aichi, Japan）
- Died
- 2017-03-30 （Nagoya, Aichi, Japan） age 99
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Nagoya, Japan → Tokyo, Japan (during university)
Career
- Occupations
- tanka poet, writer
- Active Years
- 1967-2017
- Affiliations
- Akinire Tanka Society (head), Editor of the tanka magazine 'Shiroi Tori' ('White Bird')
- Influenced By
- Yūgure Maeda
- Influenced
- Karan Kurose
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo Woman's Christian University | Department of Japanese Literature | Japanese Literature | — | — | Japan |
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Department of Japanese Literature
/ Japanese Literature
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Niimi Nankichi Literary Prize | Yūbae no Kumo (Clouds of the Sunset) | — | Asahi Shimbun (Nagoya office) / prize committee | winner |
| 1990 | Japan Tanka Club Award | Fuyu no Kamakiri (Winter Mantis) | — | Japan Tanka Club | winner |
| 1994 | Nagoya City Arts Award (Special Prize) | — | — | City of Nagoya | recipient |
| 1994 | Chubu Japan Tanka Association Rikyo Prize | — | — | Chubu Japan Tanka Association | recipient |
Niimi Nankichi Literary Prize
1982
Work:
Yūbae no Kumo (Clouds of the Sunset)
Organization:
Asahi Shimbun (Nagoya office) / prize committee
Result:
winner
Japan Tanka Club Award
1990
Work:
Fuyu no Kamakiri (Winter Mantis)
Organization:
Japan Tanka Club
Result:
winner
Nagoya City Arts Award (Special Prize)
1994
Organization:
City of Nagoya
Result:
recipient
Chubu Japan Tanka Association Rikyo Prize
1994
Organization:
Chubu Japan Tanka Association
Result:
recipient
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Yūbae no Kumo (Clouds of the Sunset)
1982 autobiographical novelAn autobiographical novel recounting married life, wartime experiences and loss; traces the family's life through wartime and postwar Japan.
lossfamilywarmemory
Fuyu no Kamakiri (Winter Mantis)
1989 tanka collectionA collection of lyrical tanka that contemplates daily life, nature, aging, and the passage of time.
natureagingeveryday life
Tsuki no Niji (Moon Rainbow)
1985 tanka collectionA tanka collection blending youthful sensibility and lyricism; centers on poems about personal memories.
memorylyricismfamily
Bibliography
- Yūbae no Kumo: To My Late Husband (Asahi Shimbun, Nagoya) 1982
- Tsuki no Niji: Tanka Collection (Kadokawa) 1985
- Chiyo Miyake Tanka Collection: Kataribe (Geifu Shoin) 1987
- Fuyu no Kamakiri (Tanka Kenkyusha) 1989
- Dust of the Universe: Chiyo Miyake Tanka Collection 1995
- Rays and Dreams (Kadokawa) 1995
- The House Where Crows Come: Chiyo Miyake Tanka Collection 1997
- Lake of the Evening Bell: Chiyo Miyake Tanka Collection 2000
- Chiyo Miyake Selected Poems: 150 Self-Commentary Selections (Tokyo Shiki Publishing) 2002
- I Am Glad to Have Lived: Chiyo Miyake Tanka Collection 2004
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- autobiographical narration mixed with prose-like expressionlyrical, accessible tanka
- Recurring Motifs
- sunsetfamilywar and lossnature and the everyday
Legacy
A tanka poet and writer based in Nagoya, she left works focused on wartime and postwar memory and family. She contributed to regional culture by editing a tanka magazine for youth and mentoring younger poets.
Academic Societies
- Japan Tanka Club
Trivia
- In 1958 she and her husband opened the Miyake Eye Clinic in Nagoya's Kita Ward.
- All three of her sons became ophthalmologists; the second son later served as director of Aichi Medical University (Yōzō Miyake).
- Her maiden name was Sugita.