H Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 41 (1991) award
Akito Sugitani
すぎたに あきと
Sugitani Akito
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1935-01-13 （Chinnamp'o-fu (present-day Namp'o Special City, North Korea)）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Miyazaki City (after repatriation)
Career
- Occupations
- poet
- Active Years
- 1965-
- Affiliations
- Japan Poets' Club
- Memberships
- Poets' Conference, Poetry and Thought, Japan Poets' Club
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miyazaki University | Faculty of Education | — | — | — | Japan |
Miyazaki University
Faculty of Education
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | H Award | Human Life | — | — | winner |
| 2007 | Tsuboi Shigeharu Prize | Reizan | — | Poets' Conference | winner |
| 2014 | Ono Juuzaburo Prize | Farm | — | — | winner |
H Award
1991
Work:
Human Life
Result:
winner
Tsuboi Shigeharu Prize
2007
Work:
Reizan
Organization:
Poets' Conference
Result:
winner
Ono Juuzaburo Prize
2014
Work:
Farm
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Ono Tozaburo Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 16 (2014) award
Works
Major Works
Hinokage (Poetry Collection)
1965 poetry collectionEarly collection of poems depicting local landscapes and people with delicate observation.
homenature
Cedar Coffin: Poems of Akito Sugitani
1982 poetry collectionA mature collection addressing land, memory, and questions of life and death.
memorylandlife and death
Human Life: Continued Place Names of Miyazaki
1991 poetry collectionUsing Miyazaki place names as clues, the poems poetically record human life and activity.
regional culturehistoryeveryday life
Reizan: Poems of Akito Sugitani
2007 poetry collectionContains religious and spiritual themes; awarded the Tsuboi Shigeharu Prize.
spiritualityreligionnature
Farm: Poems of Akito Sugitani
2013 poetry collectionA poetry collection that depicts regional life from the perspective of farming and rural labor.
agricultureregionlabor
Bibliography
- Hinokage (Poetry Collection), Shichosha, 1965
- Sugi no Hitsu (Poems of Akito Sugitani), Kōmyaku-sha, 1982
- Place Names of Miyazaki, Kōmyaku-sha, 1985
- Human Life: Continued Place Names of Miyazaki, Kōmyaku-sha, 1991
- Akito Sugitani Collected Poems, Doyobi Bijutsusha, 1994
- The Village History: Continued Place Names of Miyazaki, Kōmyaku-sha, 1994
- Origins of Poetry: Poems That Continue to Ask the Meaning of Living, Kōmyaku-sha, 1996
- Those Who Cultivate: Complete Place Names of Miyazaki, Kōmyaku-sha, 1997
- Small Lands, Kōmyaku-sha, 2000
- Reizan, Kōmyaku-sha, 2007
- Sea of Poems, Forest of Poems, Kōmyaku-sha, 2013
- Farm, Kōmyaku-sha, 2013
- Collected Poems of Akito Sugitani, Kōmyaku-sha, 2017
- Ten Years Later, Kōmyaku-sha, 2020
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- regional poetrylyricalmemory-focused imagery
- Recurring Motifs
- Miyazaki place namesnature (mountains, sea, farmland)land and history
Legacy
A poet based in Miyazaki who inscribed regional landscapes and collective memory into his poetry. He published numerous collections and received awards including the H Award, Tsuboi Shigeharu Prize, and Ono Juuzaburo Prize.
Academic Societies
- Japan Poets' Club
Trivia
- Born in Chinnamp'o-fu on the Korean Peninsula (present-day Namp'o Special City); repatriated to Miyazaki City after the war.
- Graduated from the Faculty of Education at Miyazaki University.
- Worked at Kōmyaku-sha and published many poetry collections through the press.