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Torahiko Otsuka

おおつか とらひこ

Otsuka Torahiko

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1961-05-17 （Kiyosu Town, Nishikasugai District, Aichi Prefecture (now Kiyosu City), Japan）
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
tanka poet, editor-publisher, lecturer
活動期間
1978年〜
所属
Member, Japan Writers' Association, Member, Modern Tanka Poets Association, Committee member, Chubu Japan Tanka Association, Secretary, Japan Tanka Club Tokai Block, Lecturer, NHK Gakuen correspondence courses, Editor-in-chief, Chubu Tanka-kai
所属団体
Japan Writers' Association, Modern Tanka Poets Association, Chubu Japan Tanka Association, Japan Tanka Club (Tokai Block)
ノミネート
Candidate, Gendai Tanka Criticism Award ("1986 TANKA ODDESAY")

受賞歴

Tanka Kenkyu Newcomer Award
1982
対象作品: Shisei Tenshi (Tattooed Angel) — 30 poems
主催: Tanka Kenkyu Publishing
結果: winner
Tokai Block Excellent Tanka Collection Award
2004
対象作品: Gaudí's Moon
主催: Japan Tanka Club, Tokai Block
結果: winner
Chunichi Tanka Grand Prize
2023
対象作品: Habitable Zone
主催: Chunichi Shimbun
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Shisei Tenshi (Tattooed Angel)

1985年 tanka (short poems)

First poetry collection featuring a partly aesthetic (decadent) style; includes the 30-poem award-winning sequence.

aestheticismpersonal sensibility

Flying Girlfriend

1989年 tanka

Second collection containing mid-career poems that evoke vivid images of subjects and relationships.

relationshipsimagination

Voice

1995年 tanka

Third collection focusing on the individual's voice and inward-looking poems.

introspectionloneliness

Gaudí's Moon

2003年 tanka

Fourth collection including poems inspired by architect Antoni Gaudí; notable for emphasis on rhythm and rhetoric.

architecturerhetoricmeter

Selection Kajin Vol.8: Torahiko Otsuka

2009年 selected tanka collection

A selected collection compiling representative works, reorganized from earlier collections.

retrospectiveselected works

Yume Nan Aru Sato

2011年 tanka

Published in 2011; a collection dealing with dreams and memories.

dreamsmemory

Habitable Zone

2023年 tanka

Sixth collection and winner of the Chunichi Tanka Grand Prize; sharp poems on middle-aged solitude and everyday life.

solitudeeveryday lifematurity

全著作

  • Shisei Tenshi (1985)
  • Sora tobu Onna Tomodachi (1989)
  • Koe (1995)
  • Gaudí no Tsuki (2003)
  • Famous Poems Translated and Annotated: Akiko Yosano (2004)
  • Selection Kajin Vol.8: Torahiko Otsuka (2009)
  • Yume Nan Aru Sato (2011)
  • Habitable Zone (2023)

作風・主題

文体
classical-style diction (bungo-based)delicate use of rhetoricstrong emphasis on meter and rhythm
頻出モチーフ
solitudeeveryday lifeaesthetic/decadent motifsarchitectural imagery

評価・遺産

Known for blending classical diction with contemporary sensibility, he has influence in the tanka world especially in the Chubu region. Active as an editor and educator, he has contributed to nurturing younger poets and tanka criticism.

関連学会

  • Japan Writers' Association
  • Modern Tanka Poets Association

豆知識

  • Started composing tanka at age 17.
  • Born in Kiyosu (now Kiyosu City), Aichi Prefecture.
  • Serves as editor-publisher of the tanka magazine "Tanka" and is chief of the Chubu Tanka Association.