Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう
Edition 13 (1979)
Tanka
Winners
1 peopleWarera Chijo ni is Toru Tamaki's third tanka collection, shaping images of plants, the body, solitude, and thought through austere, carefully controlled language. It combines intellectual restraint with a close gaze at nature and everyday detail, widening the poetic range he had developed in his earlier work.
A collection that lets faint tremors of the mind settle into images of plants, the body, and thought.
379 pages
tankaobservation of naturethe bodyreflectionrestrained lyricism