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Shota Uchiyama

うちやま しょうた

Uchiyama Shota

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1977-01-09 （Yachiyo, Chiba, Japan）
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Tanka poet
Active Years
1992-2025
Affiliations
Tanka-jin (journal/collective), Journal "pool", Tanka collective "Gaishutsu" (Gaishutsu)
Memberships
Editorial committee member, Tanka-jin (appointed 2017)

Awards

Tanka Gendai Newcomer Award (13th)
1998
Work: Kaze no Yoin
Organization: Tanka Gendai (magazine)
Result: 受賞
Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets Award (57th)
2013
Work: Tanka collection "Window, and Others"
Organization: Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tanka Collection: Window, and Others

2012 Tanka

A collection of tanka that captures fragments of everyday life, memory, and scenes reflected in windows using concise, observant language. Published in 2012.

everyday lifememorywindowsurban and nature

Bibliography

  • Tanka Collection: Window, and Others (Rokka Shorin, 2012)
  • Tanka Collection: Window, and Others (reprint, Shoshi Kankanbo, 2023)
  • Included in "Sakura Zensen Kaika Sengen: Born after 1970 - Contemporary Tanka Japan Representatives" (Sayusha, ed. Wataru Yamada, 2015)
  • Included in "Tanka Time Capsule" (Shoshi Kankanbo, ed. Naoko Higashi, Yumi Sato, Satoshi Chiba, 2018)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
modern tankaobservational and concise expressionvoice that lifts everyday details
Recurring Motifs
windowsfragments of daily lifeseasonal changememory

Legacy

Since the 2012 collection, he has been recognized as a notable contemporary tanka poet, winning the Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets Award. He is active in journals and tanka collectives and holds influence in the younger tanka community.

Trivia

  • Not the same person as the soccer referee Shota Uchiyama.
  • Twitter/X handle: @uchibach.
  • Maintains a personal blog on Ameblo.
  • Appointed to the editorial committee of Tanka-jin in 2017.