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Yasunobu Nakamura

なかむら やすのぶ

Nakamura Yasunobu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1971-01-01 (Nara Prefecture, Japan)
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
haiku poet
Active Years
1995-
Affiliations
Mononofu-kai, Haiku Space Ani, haiku & me
Influenced By
Kaneko Tohta

Education

Nara Gakuen High School
Country: Japan
Waseda University
School of Commerce
Country: Japan
Graduated from the School of Commerce (graduation year not specified in source)

Awards

Shiba Bukio Haiku Newcomer Prize
2010
Category: 奨励賞
Result: encouragement award

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tiger's Late-Night Snack

2016 haiku

First haiku collection. Combines fragments of daily life and seasonal sensibility, notable for using historical kana orthography in its diction.

seasonsdaily lifenature

Invincible Haiku Life

2002 essay / co-authored

Co-authored work offering practical perspectives on enjoying haiku and hints for composing verses grounded in everyday life.

haiku practiceeveryday life

Selection 21 (contribution)

2010 anthology / co-authored

Contribution to a curated selection anthology featuring works by multiple haiku poets.

anthologycontemporary haiku

Bibliography

  • Invincible Haiku Life (co-authored, 2002, Nanaco Corporate Communication)
  • Selection 21 (co-authored, 2010, Yuboshurin)
  • Tiger's Late-Night Snack (first haiku collection, 2016, Yuboshurin)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
uses historical kana orthographyconcise and visual imageryturns fragments of daily life into haiku
Recurring Motifs
changing seasonsdepictions of flora and faunascenes related to night and food

Legacy

A contemporary haiku poet whose reputation has grown through regional activity and online literary initiatives. Noted for his use of historical kana orthography and inventive expression.

Trivia

  • Began composing haiku around age 10 under the influence of his grandfather.
  • Has a VIAF identifier (noted in source).