Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう
Edition 18 (1984)
Tanka
Winners
2 peopleSeishuku is Sataro Sato's twelfth tanka collection, gathering poems marked by inward tension and reflection. Bitterness as a person living in the present, a gaze toward modernity, and sensitivity to nature and time are condensed within a disciplined form.
A tanka collection that inscribes deep introspection and the bitterness of lived experience in a disciplined form.
203 pages
tankaintrospectiondaily lifemodernity
Nagisa no Hibi is a tanka collection by Shuji Shimada that looks at seaside time, daily memory, and the shades of life. Landscape is not a mere backdrop but a place that receives personal feeling and the passage of time.
A tanka collection that observes daily memory and life's shades through seaside landscapes.
tankashoredaily lifememory