Kadokawa Tanka Award
1 appearances
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Edition 30 (1984) nominee
Tomoko Furutani
ふるや ともこ
Tomoko Furutani
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1944-12-18 （Okayama Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- tanka poet
- Active Years
- 1975-
- Influenced By
- Ken Kasugai, Kyoko Inaba, her father
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aoyama Gakuin University | — | — | — | — | Japan |
Aoyama Gakuin University
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Japan Tanka Poets Club Prize | Babies' Breath (Tanka Collection) | — | Japan Tanka Poets Club | winner |
Japan Tanka Poets Club Prize
2022
Work:
Babies' Breath (Tanka Collection)
Organization:
Japan Tanka Poets Club
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Japan Tanka Poets Club Award
1 appearances
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Edition 49 (2022) award
Works
Major Works
The Obligato of the Theology of God's Pain: Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection
1985 tanka poetryFirst collection containing poems interweaving religious imagery and introspection.
religionintrospectionfamily
Robinson's Sheep (Tanka Collection)
1990 tanka poetryA collection portraying urban and private worlds through personal experience and metaphor.
urban lifesolitudemetaphor
Babies' Breath (Tanka Collection)
2021 tanka poetryOne of her recent representative works. Delicate poems about family, daily life, and memory.
familymemoryeveryday life
Bibliography
- The Obligato of the Theology of God's Pain: Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection (1985)
- Robinson's Sheep (1990)
- Flowers of the Whole Body: Kyoko Inaba Notes (1993)
- Organon: Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection (1995)
- Gulliver's Garden (2001)
- A Century of Urban Poems: Beyond the Machikawa (2003)
- Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection (2008)
- Grassy Garden: Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection (2011)
- Early Summer: Tomoko Furutani Tanka Collection (2012)
- Whether Happy or Unhappy, Family Is Family. (2013)
- When I Think of Hiroko Katayama, My Heart Also Softens (2018)
- Delta City (Tanka Collection) (2019)
- Babies' Breath (Tanka Collection) (2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- lyric and observational tankaintersection of religious imagery and everyday life
- Recurring Motifs
- familycitymemoryflowers
Legacy
Tomoko Furutani is a Japanese female tanka poet active from the late 20th century into the 21st. Praised for blending everyday life with religious imagery, she won the 49th Japan Tanka Poets Club Prize in 2022 for 'Babies' Breath.'
Academic Societies
- Showa 19 Group
- Chubu Tanka Association
Trivia
- Born in Okayama Prefecture.
- Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University.
- Joined the Chubu Tanka Association in 1975; studied under Ken Kasugai after resuming tanka in 1979.
- Served as a full-time lecturer at NHK Gakuen.