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Chōkū Prize ちょうくうしょう

Edition 54 (2020)

Tanka

Winners

5 people
Takayuki Saegusa さえぐさ たかゆき award

A poetry collection that catches the varying pace of daily life and the time of aging, family, and place.

Both slowness and speed become the texture of living.

293 pages
poetry collectioneveryday lifeagingtime
Satoko Kawano かわの さとこ nominee

A collection that uses the gaze of hospitality to question resistance to the times and the meaning of community.

Hospitality does not end with gentleness.

182 pages
poetry collectionhospitalitycommunityresistance
Masanori Kuwahara くわはら まさのり nominee

A poetry collection that carries the shadows of care and loss while letting the quiet of autumn nights resonate deeply.

The night is quiet, yet many times ring inside the poems.

212 pages
歌集介護喪失
Takako Hanayama はなやま たかこ nominee

A poetry collection that looks at the passing of seasons and memory through the image of bird shadows.

The shadow is light, but the time it points to is deep.

288 pages
歌集季節記憶
Hiroshi Yoshikawa よしかわ ひろし nominee

A poetry collection that layers transparent language around the border between life and death.

From a single stone flower, language moves back and forth across life and death.

141 pages
歌集生死記憶透明感