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Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう

Edition 10 (1976)

Tanka

Winners

1 people
Shuji Miya みや しゅうじ award

A tanka collection whose title evokes a solitary stone horse. Bodily feeling, nature, and memory after the war are carved into hard, quiet tanka language.

In the solitude of a stone horse appears the shape of a heart living after the war.

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