Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1990) award
Junko Takahashi
たかはし じゅんこ
Takahashi Junko
Pen Names:
Kyuugyo（Haigo (pen name used in poetry)）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1944-08-28 （Iioka, Chiba Prefecture (now Asahi City)）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- poet, writer, essayist, translator, publishing professional, part-time lecturer
- Active Years
- 1977-
- Affiliations
- Seidosha, Shoshi Yamada, Hosei University (part-time lecturer)
- Memberships
- Rekitei (literary group) contributor
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiba Prefectural Sōsa High School | — | — | — | — | Japan |
| The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters | Faculty of Letters | Department of French Literature | — | — | Japan |
Chiba Prefectural Sōsa High School
Country:
Japan
The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Letters
/ Department of French Literature
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Gendai Poetry Women's Prize | Hana Mairasezu | — | Gendai Poetry Women's Prize | winner |
| 1990 | Gendai Poetry Hanatsubaki Award | Kōfuku na Happa (Happy Leaf) | — | Gendai Poetry Hanatsubaki Award | winner |
| 1997 | Yomiuri Literary Prize | Toki no Ame (Rain of Time) | — | Yomiuri Shimbun | winner |
| 2000 | Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize | Binbō na Isu (Poor Chair) | — | Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize | winner |
| 2014 | Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize | Umi e (To the Sea) | — | Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize | winner |
| 2014 | Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize | Umi e (To the Sea) | — | Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize | winner |
| 2018 | Kodansha Essay Award | Otto: Kurumatani Chōkichi (My Husband, Chokichi Kurumatani) | — | Kodansha | winner |
Gendai Poetry Women's Prize
1987
Work:
Hana Mairasezu
Organization:
Gendai Poetry Women's Prize
Result:
winner
Gendai Poetry Hanatsubaki Award
1990
Work:
Kōfuku na Happa (Happy Leaf)
Organization:
Gendai Poetry Hanatsubaki Award
Result:
winner
Yomiuri Literary Prize
1997
Work:
Toki no Ame (Rain of Time)
Organization:
Yomiuri Shimbun
Result:
winner
Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize
2000
Work:
Binbō na Isu (Poor Chair)
Organization:
Maruyama Yutaka Memorial Contemporary Poetry Prize
Result:
winner
Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize
2014
Work:
Umi e (To the Sea)
Organization:
Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize
Result:
winner
Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize
2014
Work:
Umi e (To the Sea)
Organization:
Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize
Result:
winner
Kodansha Essay Award
2018
Work:
Otto: Kurumatani Chōkichi (My Husband, Chokichi Kurumatani)
Organization:
Kodansha
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 52 (2014) award
Miyoshi Tatsuji Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 10 (2015) award
Kodansha Essay Award
1 appearances
-
Edition 34 (2018) award
Works
Major Works
To the Sea
1977 poetry collectionAn early poetry collection characterized by quiet lyricism and imagery of the sea and nature.
seanaturememory
Hana Mairasezu
1986 poetry collectionA representative work of the 1980s, featuring delicate depictions of everyday life and feminine sensibility.
womanhoodeveryday lifenature
Happy Leaf
1990 poetry collectionA collection that sings of happiness and melancholy found in small things; an award-winning volume.
happinessmelancholyeveryday life
Rain of Time
1996 poetry collectionA major mid-career collection on time and memory; winner of the Yomiuri Literary Prize.
timememoryloss
The Poor Chair
2000 poetry collectionA collection that portrays human life through fragments and attention to objects.
everyday lifeobjectsliving
To the Sea
2014 poetry collectionA later representative work examining life and memory from the perspective of travel and the sea; recipient of Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize and Miyoshi Tatsuji Prize.
travelseamemory
My Husband, Chokichi Kurumatani
2017 essayAn essay chronicling life with her husband, the writer Chokichi Kurumatani; winner of the Kodansha Essay Award.
familymemoireveryday life
Bibliography
- To the Sea (Makishinsha, 1977)
- Nagi (Shoshi Yamada, 1981)
- Hana Mairasezu (Shoshi Yamada, 1986)
- Happy Leaf (Shoshi Yamada, 1990)
- An Ordinary Woman (Shoshi Yamada, 1993)
- Collected Poems of Junko Takahashi (Shoshi Yamada, 1996)
- Rain of Time (Seidosha, 1996)
- Person from the River (Furansudo, 2000)
- The Poor Chair (Kashinsha, 2000)
- Junko Takahashi Collected Poems (Shichosha, 2001)
- Dōroku Jinsama (Shichosha, 2005)
- Pilgrimage (Shoshi Yamada, 2009)
- To the Sea (Shoshi Yamada, 2014)
- My Husband, Chokichi Kurumatani (Bungeishunjū, 2017)
- Sakura Sakuran (Deco, 2019)
Translations by Author
- Voyage Diary (Hans Arp, translation, Shoshi Yamada, 1991)
- In This Sea (John Milington Synge, translation, Deco, 2012)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- quiet, lyrical styleattentive depiction of everyday details
- Recurring Motifs
- seawaterseasonsmemoryhome and family
Legacy
One of the notable Japanese female poets active from the postwar period to the present. Renowned for delicate everyday poetry and recipient of multiple literary awards.
Academic Societies
- Rekitei contributors
Trivia
- Born August 28, 1944 in Iioka (now Asahi City), Chiba Prefecture.
- Birth family name is Kurumatani. Haigo (pen name) is Kyuugyo.
- Married writer Chokichi Kurumatani in October 1993.
- In 2005 she undertook a round-the-world sea voyage with her husband and companions.
- In 2008 she and her husband made a pilgrimage to the Shikoku 88 temples.