Japan Poets Club Newcomer Award
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (1995) award
Keiko Shimizu
しみず けいこ
shimizu keiko
Pen Names:
Tsuneko（birth name）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1911-02-11 （Kurumasaka, Shitaya Ward, Tokyo City (now Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo)）
- Died
- 2005-10-18 age 94
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Ueno area, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Career
- Occupations
- haiku poet, stenographer
- Active Years
- 1949-2005
- Affiliations
- Contributor/member and later selector for magazine 'Hyokai', Member of the journal 'Kinza' (Kotobza/Lyra), Founding member of the journal 'Ran'
- Influenced By
- , Koui Nagata
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo Prefectural First Girls' High School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Hakuyo High School) | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Tokyo Prefectural First Girls' High School (now Tokyo Metropolitan Hakuyo High School)
Country:
Japan
Graduated from a prewar girls' high school
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Shika Bungakukan Prize | Ame no Ki (Tree of Rain) | — | Shika Literature Museum | 受賞 |
Shika Bungakukan Prize
2002
Work:
Ame no Ki (Tree of Rain)
Organization:
Shika Literature Museum
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Shiika Bungakukan Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 17 (2002) award
Works
Major Works
Hiyoku
1973 HaikuEarly collection of haiku focusing on solitude and observations of everyday life.
solitudenaturebereavement
Aiko
1981 HaikuA mid-period collection treating loss and bereavement with an introspective tone.
lossremembrancenature
Yumekara
1994 HaikuA mature collection with many poems touching on memory and the boundary between dream and reality.
memorydreamtime
Ame no Ki (Tree of Rain)
2001 HaikuA late-career collection gathering the poet's craft; includes representative late works.
naturepathosending
Complete Haiku of Keiko Shimizu
2005 HaikuComplete collection covering the poet's lifetime work, including representative poems and a chronology.
lifelong retrospectionbereavementnature
Bibliography
- Hiyoku (1973, Bokuyosha)
- Aiko (1981, Haiku Kenkyusha)
- Yumekara (1994, Soubunsha)
- Ame no Ki (2001, Kadokawa)
- Complete Haiku of Keiko Shimizu (2005, Ran no Kai)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Traditional haiku based on seasonal-word and fixed-form (yūki teikei)Concise and lyrical expression
- Recurring Motifs
- bereavementlonelinessnaturememory
Health
-
heart failure2005年10月Died of heart failure in October 2005
Legacy
A haiku poet celebrated for work rooted in solitude and bereavement. Active in the postwar haiku community, she played central roles in several literary journals, won the Shika Bungakukan Prize for a late collection, and had her complete works published.
Academic Societies
- Haiku Poets Association
Quotes
-
All of my lamentation I call 'hotarukusa' (firefly grass).
Source: Representative haiku (source: Wikipedia entry)
Trivia
- Lost her parents in early childhood and was raised by her grandmother.
- Known for the representative haiku "慟哭のすべてを螢草といふ".
- Worked at the secretariat of the Haiku Poets Association.