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Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう

Edition 18 (1984)

Tanka

Winners

2 people
Sataro Satō さとう さたろう award

Seishuku 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
Shuji Shimada しまだ しゅうじ award

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