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Chunichi Poetry Award

ちゅうにちししょう

A literary award for poetry collections hosted by the Chunichi Poets Association.

Poetry
Established
1952
Organizer
Chunichi Poets Association (Sponsored by Chunichi Shimbun)
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around July
Status
Active

Description

A literary award for poetry collections established in 1952 by the Chunichi Poets Association (sponsored by Chunichi Shimbun). Renamed to its current name in 1965, it continues to the present day.

Past Winners

石田諒 いしだ りょう poetry prize

"家の顚末" is 石田諒's poetry collection, and A poetry collection that condenses memory and feeling around the idea of home.

A poetry collection that condenses memory and feeling around the idea of home.

96 pages
poetrycollectionfamily
吉川彩子 よしかわ さいこ encouragement award

"浅き眠りは地上に満ちて" is 吉川彩子's poetry collection, and A poetry collection that traces the boundary between sleep and waking.

A poetry collection that traces the boundary between sleep and waking.

88 pages
poetrycollectiondreams
中山郁子 なかやま いくこ poetry prize

A tanka collection that layers quiet observation and lyricism to gather up seasons, memory, and bodily sensation in fine detail. Its concise phrasing gently brings emotional contours into view.

Within the short tanka form, the collection delicately captures emotional shifts hidden in everyday scenes.

84 pages
tankalyric poetrymemoryeveryday life
坂井一則 さかい かずのり encouragement award

A tanka collection that assembles fragments of sensation with an awareness of silence, blur, and blank space. Its poetic ellipses leave a quiet afterimage.

It gathers fragmentary images and reaches an emotional core without overexplaining it.

112 pages
tankanegative spacesensationcontemporary poetry
山崎るり子 やまざき るりこ poetry prize

Ruriko Yamazaki's poetry collection Nekomachi. I confirmed the standalone book edition from Furansudo with ISBN13 9784781414669.

A poetry collection built from 366 short poems.

388 pages
poetry collectioncontemporary poetrystandalone book
桑田今日子 くわた きょうこ encouragement award

Kyoko Kuwata's poetry collection Hebi to Taicho. I confirmed the standalone book edition from Shiyusha with ISBN13 9784916139443.

A poetry collection published in 2022.

104 pages
poetry collectioncontemporary poetrystandalone book
早矢仕典子 はやし のりこ poetry prize

A poetry collection by Noriko Hayashi that gathers poems written over the years after 2007. It moves quietly between illness, loss, family memory, and the tactile presence of landscape.

Within the long swell of time, private memory and landscape gently overlap.

poetrytimememoryillnessloss
かわいふくみ かわい ふくみ encouragement award

A poetry collection by Fukumi Kawai. Using the feel of spoken language and repeated sounds, it gently opens up the textures of everyday life and bodily sensation.

By peeling back the skin of words layer by layer, it rediscovers the contours of wind and voice.

93 pages
poetryspoken languagesoundbodily sensationeveryday life
Yoshihiro Ito いとう よしひろ poetry prize
中山郁子 なかやま いくこ encouragement award
作田教子 さくだ きょうこ poetry prize
Yoko Ota おおた ようこ encouragement award

A poetry collection that follows the moment voice emerges and the afterglow it leaves behind. It turns the outlines of daily life and shifting memory into words with a supple sensitivity.

It catches the tremor of voice and moves deeper into everyday life.

112 pages
poetryvoicememorydaily lifeafterglow
Aiko Tokuzawa とくざわ あいこ encouragement award
木下裕也 きのした ゆうや poetry prize

This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.

This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.

poetry
中村薺 なかむら なずな poetry prize

Karigane-ten no Aru Fukei received the Chunichi Poetry Award. Its title suggests attention to the texture of kana marks and landscape, placing the collection around fine details of language and the margins of memory.

A faint mark in writing and the memory of landscape quietly overlap.

poetrylanguagelandscapememorywriting
中谷泰士 なかたに たいし newcomer award

Tabi o Hito no Shikai e received the newcomer prize of the Chunichi Poetry Award. It treats travel not merely as personal movement but as an experience of entering another person's field of vision, using poetic language to explore the distance between seeing and being seen.

Travel is not only movement into unfamiliar places but also into another person's field of vision.

poetrytravelfield of visionothernessnewcomer prize
林美佐子 はやし みさこ poetry prize

Misako Hayashi’s second poetry collection uses urban sounds and memories of daily life, suggested by train departure melodies, to draw out solitude and warmth from ordinary scenes.

Like a brief melody at a station, everyday memories begin to sound within these poems.

poetry collectioncitystationsmemory of daily lifeeveryday life
舟橋空兎 ふなはし くうと newcomer award

Kuto Funahashi’s third poetry collection moves between prose poems and lineated poems, breaking down light, time, and bodily sensation to explore the quiet radicalism of being free.

Like a quiet free radical, language leaps toward the next brightness.

poetry collectionprose poetryfreedombodily sensationtime
加藤千香子 かとう ちかこ poetry prize

POEMS症候群 is an award-recognized work by 加藤千香子. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
平野晴子 ひらの はるこ poetry prize

黎明のバケツ is an award-recognized work by 平野晴子. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
Makoto Takeuchi たけうち しん poetry prize

果実集 is an award-winning work by 竹内新. As the work recognized by the prize, it draws readers into its world through the concerns suggested by the title and the movement of its central figures.

Through 果実集, the work leads readers toward the author viewpoint and the core of the story.

127 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturecharacter depictionmemory and time
やまうちかずじ やまうち かずじ newcomer award

わ音の風景 is an award-winning work by やまうちかずじ. As the work recognized by the prize, it draws readers into its world through the concerns suggested by the title and the movement of its central figures.

Through わ音の風景, the work leads readers toward the author viewpoint and the core of the story.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturecharacter depictionmemory and time
藤原佯 newcomer award

doner(ダウナー) is an award-winning work by 藤原佯. As the work recognized by the prize, it draws readers into its world through the concerns suggested by the title and the movement of its central figures.

Through doner(ダウナー), the work leads readers toward the author viewpoint and the core of the story.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturecharacter depictionmemory and time
Yuko Hojo ほうじょう ゆうこ poetry prize

花眼 is an award-recognized work by 北条裕子. It can be read as a literary work shaped by its characters' choices and their relationship with society and time.

花眼 is a work by 北条裕子 that continues to draw attention through its award history.

77 pages
award-winning literaturememoryhuman relationships
林美佐子 はやし みさこ newcomer award

鹿ヶ谷かぼちゃ is an award-recognized work by 林美佐子. It can be read as a literary work shaped by its characters' choices and their relationship with society and time.

鹿ヶ谷かぼちゃ is a work by 林美佐子 that continues to draw attention through its award history.

96 pages
award-winning literaturememoryhuman relationships
若山紀子 わかやま のりこ poetry prize

夜が眠らないので is a Japanese literary work by 若山紀子. The book is presented here through confirmed bibliographic sources and award records.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

96 pages
memorylanguagehuman relationships
酒見直子 さかみ なおこ newcomer award

空へ落ちる is a Japanese literary work by 酒見直子. The book is presented here through confirmed bibliographic sources and award records.

A compact work whose appeal lies in the pressure of memory, language, and the lives it depicts.

93 pages
memorylanguagehuman relationships
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

A poetry collection by Isao Tanaka. The poems can be read as attempts to gather the presence hidden inside what seems meaningless and the quiet prayers embedded in everyday scenes. It is one of the poet's recognized works and won the Chunichi Poetry Award.

A collection that listens for quiet prayers beneath the surface of the seemingly meaningless.

contemporary poetrymeaninglessnessprayereveryday lifeHokuriku
Reira newcomer award

A poetry collection by Masami Ando. It weaves familiar landscapes, journeys, memories, family, and traces of prayer through quiet observation and gentle language. Across the title poem and other pieces, small tremors behind everyday life come into view.

A collection that follows memories hidden in everyday gardens and towns with a quiet voice.

88 pages
contemporary poetrymemoryfamilyjourneyeveryday life
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

季節抄 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
Reira newcomer award

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

夜からの手紙 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease. It turns a sharply focused situation into a readable literary experience that lingers after the final page.

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease.

61 pages
poetrymemorysound of languageinner life
Reira newcomer award

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease. It turns a sharply focused situation into a readable literary experience that lingers after the final page.

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease.

76 pages
poetrymemorysound of languageinner life
Hamubane newcomer award

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease. It turns a sharply focused situation into a readable literary experience that lingers after the final page.

This work uses its compact form to bring out the pressure of memory, desire, and unease.

poetrymemorysound of languageinner life
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

夜の人形 is a 詩作品 by 中神英子. As an award-recognized work, it concentrates the author's concerns and explores its subject through a distinctive style.

夜の人形 condenses the author's central concerns behind its brief title.

memorylanguagerelationships
Reira newcomer award

私のいた場所 is a 詩作品 by 斎藤なつみ. As an award-recognized work, it concentrates the author's concerns and explores its subject through a distinctive style.

私のいた場所 condenses the author's central concerns behind its brief title.

memorylanguagerelationships
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

A poetry collection by Kyoko Shibata. Centered on a long poem that begins with a misreading of a framed phrase brought home by the poet's father, it explores the mother's childhood, family memory, and the movement between places of daily life.

From a misread phrase, memories of mother and family rise into view.

124 pages
poetrymotherfamilymemory
Reira newcomer award

A poetry collection by Noriko Hayashi. Through images of a sky outside the usual seasons, birds, trees, waiting rooms, and other everyday scenes, it depicts transience and the texture of memory.

Looking up at a sky beyond the seasons, the poems open layers of memory from everyday images.

87 pages
poetryskyseasonmemory
Dachima Inaka newcomer award

危険な下り坂 is an award-winning work by 岩辺進. It is presented here as a work recognized for the tension of its scenes, relationships, and expressive control.

危険な下り坂 is a work read through the lens of its award recognition and the author's distinctive style.

75 pages
award-winning workauthorial stylecontemporary context
Reira newcomer award

寡黙な家 is an award-winning work by 大野直子. It is presented here as a work recognized for the tension of its scenes, relationships, and expressive control.

寡黙な家 is a work read through the lens of its award recognition and the author's distinctive style.

award-winning workauthorial stylecontemporary context
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

Tenohira o Ateru is a poetry collection by Michiyo Onishi. It builds poems from intimate sensations, as if placing a palm on a wound or sorrow, gathering small voices that arise when the speaker meets the strange.

Short poems rise from the warmth of a hand gently touching sorrow.

90 pages
contemporary poetryhandssorrowsmall discoveriesdaily life
Reira newcomer award

Lesson is a poetry collection by Kikuko Kondo. Available introductions show poems that look at layers of memory and time overlapping ordinary scenes through gentle metaphor. No ISBN could be confirmed.

Behind today's scenery, several layers of time can be seen through it.

contemporary poetrymemorytimeordinary scenerymetaphor
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

牛ノ川湿地帯 is a work by mitsui-kyoko. It was recognized by the chunichi poetry award in 2005 and centers on the people, places, or events suggested by its title.

牛ノ川湿地帯 can be read through the themes and narrative qualities that drew attention at the time of the award.

award-winning literaturecontemporary expressionstory and memory
Reira newcomer award

言問いとことほぎ is a work by kaneda-kyusho. It was recognized by the chunichi poetry award in 2005 and centers on the people, places, or events suggested by its title.

言問いとことほぎ can be read through the themes and narrative qualities that drew attention at the time of the award.

award-winning literaturecontemporary expressionstory and memory
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

A poem or poetry work by Nobuko Kusano. It is recorded as a Chunichi Poetry Award winner, but no standalone poetry volume under this title was confirmed.

A prize-recorded poetic work whose title carries the feel of life on the ground.

contemporary poetrybodyearthtexture of life
Reira newcomer award

A contemporary poetry work by Eriko Hatada. Its title suggests a sense of multiple selves and evokes the spread of body and voice.

A poetic work titled around the sensation of countless selves passing through like wind.

contemporary poetryselfhoodbodily sensationvoice
Dachima Inaka poetry prize

"流謫の思想" is an award-winning work by 高橋喜久晴. It draws readers into its world through shifting emotions, relationships, and the atmosphere surrounding its characters.

流謫の思想 became more widely known through its award recognition.

human relationshipsmemoryordinary and extraordinary life
Reira newcomer award

"鳥洞橋をわたり" is an award-winning work by 野根裕. It draws readers into its world through shifting emotions, relationships, and the atmosphere surrounding its characters.

鳥洞橋をわたり became more widely known through its award recognition.

human relationshipsmemoryordinary and extraordinary life
河村敬子 かわむら けいこ poetry prize

もくれんの舟 is a work by 河村敬子. Recognized as an award-winning work in 2002, it opens its world through the people, places, and events suggested by its title and through the texture of its language.

もくれんの舟 can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.

poetryresonance of languageaward-winning work
小島きみ子 こじま きみこ newcomer award

Dying Summer is a work by 小島きみ子. Recognized as an award-winning work in 2002, it opens its world through the people, places, and events suggested by its title and through the texture of its language.

Dying Summer can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.

poetryresonance of languageaward-winning work
江原律 えはら りつ poetry prize

Ritsu Ehara's poetry collection recalls time from a distance, gathering memory, loss, and faint traces of everyday life in quiet language. Rather than a grand narrative, it captures brief flickers that remain in the mind.

Quiet lines draw near the light of days receding into the distance.

97 pages
poetrymemorytimeloss
若栗清子 わかぐり きよこ newcomer award

Set around the shared space of flower arrangement, this work depicts gestures with flowers, distance among companions, and small tensions in daily life. Beneath the brightness of club activity lies the difficulty of expression and connection.

Beyond the hands arranging flowers, the distance between people comes into view.

flower arrangementclub activityrelationshipsexpression
溝口章 みぞぐち あきら poetry prize

A poetry collection by Akira Mizoguchi that looks at 1945 as a turning point of memory, tracing postwar time, fragments, and lost words in poetic form.

’45年ノート残欠

poetrypostwarmemory
作田教子 さくだ きょうこ newcomer award

A poetry collection by Kyoko Sakuda that explores, from a boundary position, the moments when light, voice, and letters emerge and how sensation becomes language.

境界からの光・声・そして文字へ

poetryboundarieslanguage
川上明日夫 かわかみ あすお poetry prize

"蜻蛉座" is a work by 川上明日夫. It is recognized in the context of its award field, including literature, criticism, children's writing, mystery, or related genres.

"蜻蛉座" is an award-winning work that reflects 川上明日夫's distinctive approach.

67 pages
award-winning workliteratureauthorial style
今井好子 いまい よしこ newcomer award

"あなたとわたし、レタスを食べる" is a work by 今井好子. It is recognized in the context of its award field, including literature, criticism, children's writing, mystery, or related genres.

"あなたとわたし、レタスを食べる" is an award-winning work that reflects 今井好子's distinctive approach.

87 pages
award-winning workliteratureauthorial style
宇佐美孝二 うさみ こうじ poetry prize
堀江三智子 ほりえ みちこ newcomer award
Akemi Kitagawa きたがわ あけみ poetry prize

神の人事 is an award-recognized work by 北川 朱実. It follows the tensions suggested by its title and presents them through character, setting, and narrative movement.

神の人事 brings together the concerns of its moment with the author's chosen subject.

98 pages
award-winning workpersonal changesociety and its time
安田萱子 やすだ かやこ newcomer award

食物誌 is a 詩集 by 安田萱子 and was recognized by the 中日詩賞.

The title 食物誌 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

114 pages
詩集中日詩賞contemporary literature
Riki Watanabe わたなべ りき poetry prize

地衣類 is a work by 渡辺力. It is known as a recipient of chunichi-poetry-award and presents the author's concerns and style.

地衣類 presents the literary world of 渡辺力.

award-winning workliterary expressionauthorial themes
坂口優子 さかぐち ゆうこ newcomer award

扉をあけて is a work by 坂口裕子. It is known as a recipient of chunichi-poetry-award and presents the author's concerns and style.

扉をあけて presents the literary world of 坂口裕子.

award-winning workliterary expressionauthorial themes
Anna Ogawa おがわ あんな poetry prize

"晩夏光幻視" is an award-winning work by 小川アンナ, recognized by the 中日詩賞. It can be read as a representative work that concentrates the author style and concerns.

An award-winning work in which 小川アンナ brings the force of the title "晩夏光幻視" into focus.

award-winning work中日詩賞authorial style
Keiko Tokino ときの けいこ second prize

"水のプラチナ紀" is an award-winning work by 時野慶子, recognized by the 中日詩賞. It can be read as a representative work that concentrates the author style and concerns.

An award-winning work in which 時野慶子 brings the force of the title "水のプラチナ紀" into focus.

award-winning work中日詩賞authorial style
吉永素乃 よしなが すの poetry prize

未完の神話 is a work by 吉永素乃. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of chunichi-poetry-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

未完の神話 reflects the qualities in 吉永素乃's writing that drew award attention.

award-winning work1994literature
岩井礼子 いわい れいこ second prize

冬の果樹園 is a work by 岩井礼子. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of chunichi-poetry-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

冬の果樹園 reflects the qualities in 岩井礼子's writing that drew award attention.

award-winning work1994literature
Tetsuo Suzuki すずき てつお poetry prize

蝉の松明 is an award-winning work by 鈴木哲雄. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.

蝉の松明 presents the literary world of 鈴木哲雄.

award-winning workauthorial voiceliterary expression
成田敦 なりた あつし poetry prize

水の発芽 is an award-winning work by 成田敦. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.

水の発芽 presents the literary world of 成田敦.

award-winning workauthorial voiceliterary expression
川上明日夫 かわかみ あすお second prize

白くさみしい一編の洋館 is an award-winning work by 川上明日夫. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.

白くさみしい一編の洋館 presents the literary world of 川上明日夫.

award-winning workauthorial voiceliterary expression
河田忠 かわだ ただし poetry prize

This poetry collection by Tadashi Kawada looks into regions of negativity and silence, seeking the outer edge of what language can reach. Its restrained voice quietly brings out the weight of existence.

沈黙存在
宮沢肇 みやざわ はじめ poetry prize

This poetry collection by Hajime Miyazawa centers on the image of birds while quietly observing life, death, natural things, and changes in consciousness. Clear images and spacious language convey a delicate sense of the world.

92 pages
生と死
大西美千代 おおにし みちよ second prize

This poetry collection by Michiyo Onishi begins from the warmth of a familiar creature and opens toward loneliness and the depth of sensitivity. Nearness in daily life and existential distance resonate in quiet lines.

孤独感受性
広部英一 ひろべ えいいち poetry prize

A poetry collection by Eiichi Hirobe. It centers on lyric exchanges between the living and the dead, shaped by the death of the author's mother, a regional sense of life, and a searching inward voice.

The presence of the dead and the voice of place rise as quiet lyricism.

774 pages
modern poetrythe deadregional lifelyricism
山中以都子 やまなか いつこ second prize

A poetry collection by Itsuko Yamanaka. It follows time moving toward parting, memory, and the instability of intimate relationships in restrained language.

The time leading to parting is marked in the quiet breathing of poetry.

modern poetrypartingmemorytime
なかむらみちこ なかむら みちこ poetry prize

ねむりのエスキス by 中村通子 is a prize-recognized work. 眠りの手前にある感覚や記憶を、素描のような軽やかさで連ねる詩集。夢と現実の境目を曖昧にしながら、内面の微細な揺れを言葉にしている。

ねむりのエスキス shows the central qualities of 中村通子.

award-recognized workliterary expressionmemory and relationships
木下いつ子 きのした いつこ second prize

おだやかな顔 by 木下逸子 is a prize-recognized work. 人の表情や日常の場面に宿る静けさを見つめる詩集。穏やかな視線の中に時間の陰影を残す。

おだやかな顔 shows the central qualities of 木下逸子.

award-recognized workliterary expressionmemory and relationships
岡田清子 おかだ きよこ second prize

三人 by 岡田清子 is a prize-recognized work. 複数の人物の距離や関係を手がかりに、生活の中の孤独と連帯を描く詩作品。人と人の間にある余白が残る。

三人 shows the central qualities of 岡田清子.

award-recognized workliterary expressionmemory and relationships
永谷悠紀子 ながたに ゆきこ poetry prize

ひばりが丘の家々 is an award-recognized work by 永谷悠紀子. It leaves a lasting impression through its focus on people, its period, and its mode of expression.

ひばりが丘の家々 is a work in which 永谷悠紀子's expression was recognized through an award.

100 pages
award-winning workliteraturehuman drama
若原清 わかはら きよし second prize

犇めく is an award-recognized work by 若原清. It leaves a lasting impression through its focus on people, its period, and its mode of expression.

犇めく is a work in which 若原清's expression was recognized through an award.

97 pages
award-winning workliteraturehuman drama
村瀬和子 むらせ かずこ poetry prize

A poetry collection that lets the name of a coastal place resonate while linking memory, landscape, and bodily sensation. The concreteness of place supports both personal time and poetic image.

氷見のように conveys a central aspect of 村瀬和子’s work.

poetrylandscapebodily sensationlanguage
埋田昇二 うめだ しょうじ poetry prize

A poetry collection that approaches Mount Fuji through a sequence of white landscapes, shaping mountain, light, and language into tension. A vast subject is transformed into quiet, compressed poetic diction.

富獄白景 conveys a central aspect of 埋田昇二’s work.

poetrylandscapebodily sensationlanguage
宇佐美孝二 うさみ こうじ second prize

A poetry collection that treats the feel of the sky as sound and follows minute tremors in language. The light breath of the title opens everyday space to fresh perception.

空の擬音が、ふ conveys a central aspect of 宇佐美孝二’s work.

118 pages
poetrylandscapebodily sensationlanguage
宮田澄子 みやた すみこ poetry prize

A poetry collection by Miyata Sumiko. Starting from the small image of unhulled rice, it quietly explores agricultural memory, cycles of life, and a sense rooted in the land.

From one grain of rice, memories of land and life unfold.

poetryagriculturelifeland
高梨由利江 たかなし ゆりえ second prize

A poetry collection by Takanashi Yurie. As its title suggests, holding the image of a deep-sea fish, it uses dense metaphor to express inner darkness, solitude, and the texture of life.

Like holding a creature from deep water, the poems shape the feel of solitude.

poetrysolitudedeep seametaphor
佐合五十鈴 さごう いすず poetry prize

Isuzu Sago's Mayu is a poetry collection whose title evokes delicate inwardness and life awaiting transformation. Its quiet layers of language hold enclosed time and an outward-moving force at once.

A poetry collection that layers inward quiet and the anticipation of transformation onto the image of a cocoon.

poetrycocooninwardnesstransformationquiet
成田敦 なりた あつし second prize

Atsushi Narita's Mizu no Nenrin is a poetry collection whose title brings together flowing water and layered time. Through natural images, personal perception is connected to a longer temporal scale.

A poetry collection tracing layers of memory and time through images of water and growth rings.

poetrywatertimememorylandscape
日原正彦 ひはら まさひこ poetry prize

Sorezore no Kumo, Yureru Ha is a poetry collection in which Masahiko Nihara overlays human time and feeling onto the wavering of clouds and leaves. Through quiet observation, it catches the distance and presence held by each existence.

A poetry collection that overlays human time and emotion onto shifting clouds and leaves.

modern poetrynaturetransitionobservation
谷澤辿 たにざわ たどる poetry prize

Toki no Shiori is a poetry collection in which Tadoru Tanizawa entrusts memories and feelings left within the flow of time to the image of a bookmark. It builds a quiet lyricism while attending to the way words hold what passes.

A poetry collection that reads memories held within passing time as quiet lyricism.

modern poetrytimememorylyricism
江原律 えばら りつ second prize

琥珀の虫 is a 詩集 by 江原律. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

琥珀の虫 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

memoryfamilyhistorical momentselfhood
富安みのり とみやす みのり second prize

哀しみの狩猟者 is a 詩集 by 富安稔. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

哀しみの狩猟者 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

memoryfamilyhistorical momentselfhood
浅井薫 あさい かおる poetry prize
盛山千登世 もりやま ちとせ second prize
Toshiko Sawada さわだ としこ poetry prize

未了 is a work by 沢田敏子 associated with the 1981 cycle of 中日詩賞. In its award context, it was recognized for its distinctive subject matter, form, or contribution to contemporary literary and artistic expression.

A work by 沢田敏子 recognized in the context of 中日詩賞.

award-winning workcontemporary expressionliterary award
若山紀子 わかやま のりこ second prize

ぶるうす is a work by 若山紀子 associated with the 1981 cycle of 中日詩賞. In its award context, it was recognized for its distinctive subject matter, form, or contribution to contemporary literary and artistic expression.

A work by 若山紀子 recognized in the context of 中日詩賞.

award-winning workcontemporary expressionliterary award
Takashi Mizuno みずの たかし poetry prize

A poetry collection gathering Mizuno Takashi's work. Against the landscapes of Oku-Mino, Shinshu, and surrounding regions, it weaves place-rooted voices and memories into poems shaped by local life and lyric feeling.

A collection that places local memory and everyday voices at the core of lyric poetry.

lyric poetryOku-Minolocal climatememory of placedaily life
渡辺正也 わたなべ まさや second prize

“Bara Jikan no Hizai” is a poetry collection by Masaya Watanabe. Joining the highly abstract words rose, time, and absence, it lets memory and the sense of existence tremble in a place slightly displaced from reality. Published as a limited edition, it is a taut volume of modern poetry.

Roses, time, and absence quietly stir the shadows of memory.

152 pages
modern poetryrosetimeabsencememory
横井新ハ よこい しんは poetry prize

物活説 is a work by 横井新ハ that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.

物活説 brings 記憶 and 言葉 into focus through the form of 詩集.

memoryhuman relationshipsliterary style
松井滋 まつい しげる second prize

愛歌 is a work by 松井滋 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.

愛歌 brings 記憶 and 言葉 into focus through the form of 詩集.

memoryhuman relationshipsliterary style
Kakuryō Tominaga とみなが かくりょう poetry prize

記憶 is a work by 冨長覚梁 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.

記憶 brings 記憶 and 言葉 into focus through the form of 詩集.

memoryhuman relationshipsliterary style
加藤則幸 かとう のりゆき second prize

地蔵頌 is a work by 加藤則幸 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.

地蔵頌 brings 記憶 and 言葉 into focus through the form of 詩集.

memoryhuman relationshipsliterary style
岡崎純 おかざき じゅん poetry prize

極楽石 is a work by 岡崎純. It presents its subject through carefully shaped scenes and a voice rooted in its literary moment.

極楽石 follows people and their time through the form of 詩集.

113 pages
memorysocietyhuman experience
Kenji Yamada やまだ けんじ second prize

魑魅魍魎 is a work by 山田兼士. It presents its subject through carefully shaped scenes and a voice rooted in its literary moment.

魑魅魍魎 follows people and their time through the form of 詩集.

memorysocietyhuman experience
Takuo Umeda うめだ たくお poetry prize

額縁 is a 詩集 by 梅田卓夫. Recognized by the prize, it presents the author's literary voice within its period.

A 詩集 recognized in the context of 中日詩賞受賞作.

87 pages
詩集prize-recognized work1970s literature
永谷悠紀子 ながたに ゆきこ second prize

酒の唄 is a 詩集 by 永谷悠紀子. Recognized by the prize, it presents the author's literary voice within its period.

A 詩集 recognized in the context of 中日詩賞次賞作.

詩集prize-recognized work1970s literature
古田欣一 ふるた きんいち poetry prize

Waga Shatei is a poetry collection that measures distance, perception, and the contours of its objects through restrained language. As a Chunichi Poetry Award winner, it extends a personal field of vision toward society and its time.

わが射程 presents 古田欣一's work as an award-recognized title.

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Setsuko Kurobe くろべ せつこ poetry prize

Ima wa Daremo Imasen is a poetry collection centered on absence, quietly tracing loneliness and gaps in time. As its spare title suggests, it builds modern poetic feeling from a place where voices have disappeared.

いまは誰もいません presents 黒部節子's work as an award-recognized title.

96 pages
poetryabsencesolitudetime
吉富宜康 よしとみ よしやす poetry prize

构の村 is an award-recognized work by 吉富宜康. Centered on the people, places, or events suggested by its title, it stands as a work valued within the literary and artistic context of its time.

构の村, an award-recognized work by 吉富宜康.

101 pages
award-recognized workliterature and artsexpression of its period
村瀬和子 むらせ かずこ second prize

ひよのいる風景 is an award-recognized work by 村瀬和子. Centered on the people, places, or events suggested by its title, it stands as a work valued within the literary and artistic context of its time.

ひよのいる風景, an award-recognized work by 村瀬和子.

66 pages
award-recognized workliterature and artsexpression of its period
伊藤勝行 いとう かつゆき poetry prize

未完の頷分 is an award-recognized work by 伊藤勝行. Centered on the people, places, or events suggested by its title, it stands as a work valued within the literary and artistic context of its time.

未完の頷分, an award-recognized work by 伊藤勝行.

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大竹尹 おおたけ ただし second prize

うし is an award-recognized work by 大竹尹. Centered on the people, places, or events suggested by its title, it stands as a work valued within the literary and artistic context of its time.

うし, an award-recognized work by 大竹尹.

award-recognized workliterature and artsexpression of its period
柏木よしお かしわぎ よしお poetry prize

A poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi. As the title Somon suggests, it centers on address and response, joining intimate feeling with everyday scenery in restrained language.

Between the calling voice and answering silence, an intimate poetic space opens.

142 pages
modern poetryexchange of voicesintimacyeveryday life
Takuo Umeda うめだ たくお second prize

A poetry collection by Takuo Umeda. It attends to the placement and distance of things, bringing out the texture of existence in daily life through concise, intellectually shaped language.

From a gaze fixed on the position of things, the depth of everyday life quietly opens.

modern poetryobjectsdistanceperception of everyday life
鈴木孝 すずき たかし second prize

A poetry collection by Takashi Suzuki, later published by Shikaisha as Suzuki Takashi Shishu: Aru no Uta. Behind its simple title is a poetic search for the roots of language and life.

A poetry collection that reconsiders the feeling of “being” from the roots of life and language.

modern poetrybeinglanguagelife
水島卓 みずしま たく poetry prize

暴徒甘受 is known as a work by 水島卓.

暴徒甘受 stands in 水島卓's award record.

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笠俊介 かさ しゅんすけ second prize

水道屋は下みてあるく is known as a work by 笠俊介.

水道屋は下みてあるく stands in 笠俊介's award record.

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平光善久 ひらみつ よしひさ poetry prize

Hone no Isho is a poetry collection by Yoshihisa Hiramitsu that takes death and the body as hard-edged metaphor. True to its stark title, it excavates the voice that remains at the bottom of existence.

A poetry collection that excavates the presence of body and death in hard language.

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那須田浩 なすだ ひろし second prize

Michiyuki is a poetry collection by Hiroshi Nasuda that looks at the course of life through movement and parting. Its journey-like form lets personal time and landscape cross each other.

A poetry collection that places parting and time within the form of a journey.

poetryjourneypartingtime
黛元男 まゆずみ もとお poetry prize

Bokura no Chiho is a poetry collection by Motoo Mayuzumi that carries the feeling of local life and the atmosphere of its time in plain language. Through a tactile sense of place, it turns individual life and community presence into poetry.

A poetry collection that receives the feeling of local life in quiet language.

poetrylocalitycommunitysense of life
谷澤辿 たにざわ たどる second prize

Sanshōuo no Furusato is a poetry collection by Tadoru Tanizawa that layers local nature with memories of life. Through the damp presence of the salamander, it considers belonging and solitude.

A poetry collection that looks at belonging and solitude through local nature.

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金田国武 かねだ くにたけ second prize

道祖神考 is a 詩集 by 金田国武. It is presented here as a work shaped by 詩, 民俗, 祈り.

道祖神考 preserves 金田国武's voice in the form of 詩集.

民俗祈り
中井清 なかい きよし second prize

丸山薫の世界 is a 詩人論 by 中井清. It is presented here as a work shaped by 詩人論, 丸山薫, 近代詩.

丸山薫の世界 preserves 中井清's voice in the form of 詩人論.

139 pages
詩人論丸山薫近代詩
板倉柄音 poetry prize

A poetry collection that uses the sound of language and leaps of perception. By shifting details of reality, it creates a poetic world where brightness and unease coexist.

リンゲルナッツ詩集 is a work in which a poetry collection that uses the sound of language and leaps of perception.

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南信雄 みなみ のぶお runner-up

A poetry collection that turns the sounds of daily life and the feel of labor into poetic rhythm. From familiar noises, local atmosphere and human activity emerge.

長靴の音 is a work in which a poetry collection that turns the sounds of daily life and the feel of labor into poetic rhythm.

poetrydaily lifelaborregion
小池亮夫 こいけ りょうお poetry prize

A collection of poems by Ryoo Koike. It connects observations of daily life with inner tremors, placing quiet tension inside plain language.

小池亮夫詩集 is a work in which a collection of poems by Ryoo Koike.

poetrydaily lifeinner lifelyricism
岡崎純 おかざき じゅん runner-up

A poetry collection that looks at the texture of life through plain materials. Its dry language brings out regional climate and human loneliness.

藁 is a work in which a poetry collection that looks at the texture of life through plain materials.

poetryclimatematerialsolitude
殿岡辰雄 とのおか たつお poetry prize

Heavy Rainbow is a poetry collection by Tatsuo Tonooka. Issued as a private definitive edition, it gathers a grave postwar lyricism and the poet's inner life in taut language.

A poetry collection that looks at its age and private feeling through the image of a heavy rainbow.

272 pages
postwar poetrylyricisminner lifeprivately printed poetry
吉田欣一 よしだ きんいち runner-up

Yoshida Kinichi Poetry Collection is a volume in the Japanese Contemporary Poetry Library that gathers Kinichi Yoshida's work. It links social awareness, everyday feeling, and antiwar thought from the prewar and postwar periods in a plain, persistent voice.

A collected volume through which readers can follow Kinichi Yoshida's poetry of society and everyday life.

158 pages
modern poetryantiwar writingdaily lifesocial awareness
大畑専 おおはた せん runner-up

Rumor is a poetry collection by Sen Ohata. Confirmed as a slim volume published by the Shizuoka poets' association, it condenses the atmosphere of its period and human unease into brief poems rooted in a regional poetry scene.

A brief poetry collection from a regional poetry circle, reflecting the air of its time.

56 pages
poetryregional poetryperiod awarenessunease
Toshio Nakae なかえ としお poetry prize

20 no Shi to Chinkonka is a poetry collection by Toshio Nakae, published by Shichosha in 1963 as volume 8 of the Gendai Shijin Sosho series. Its poems arrange themes such as language, the cosmos, night, rooms, and requiem, showing the taut thought and lyricism of postwar modern poetry.

A collection that crystallizes sharp introspection around language, the cosmos, night, and requiem.

94 pages
modern poetrylanguagecosmosrequiemArechi circle
御沢昌弘 みさわ まさひろ poetry prize

Kabara-shi no Kubi to Ai to is confirmed in a postwar poetry chronology as a 1963 poetry collection by Masahiro Misawa, published by Shigakusha. Under its unusual title, it appears as a work that develops modern poetic images of love, the body, and estrangement.

A poetry collection whose strange title opens onto modern poetic tensions around love and the body.

modern poetrylovebodyestrangementpostwar poetry
杉浦盛雄 すぎうら もりお poetry prize

Shiroi Kochi is a poetry collection by Morio Sugiura, published by Shichosha in 1963. Centered on the image of white cultivated land, it can be read as linking place, labor, memory, and quiet lyricism.

A poetry collection that draws the textures of life and memory from the image of cultivated land.

173 pages
modern poetrylandlabormemorylyricism
吉良任市 きら にんいち runner-up

Kyuka is confirmed as Ninichi Kira’s first poetry collection, published by Shichosha in 1962. Its poems draw on small acts of resistance, seasons, city life, and a sense of being an outsider, joining postwar introspection to everyday experience.

A first collection that traces resistance and solitude in daily life with the inward pace of postwar poetry.

modern poetrydaily lifesolituderesistancepostwar poetry
錦米次郎 にしこめ じろう poetry prize

A poetry collection by Jiro Nishikome, known as a farmer-poet. It depicts labor, death, and the weight of life in rural communities through language grounded in everyday life.

A collection that looks from the fields at the closeness of death and daily living.

rural lifelaborlife and deathsocial poetry
柏木よしお かしわぎ よしお runner-up

A poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi. Like figures fixed on a broad wall, it can be read as poetry that sets postwar sensations of life and urban presence onto the page.

A volume that carves the shadows of life and its time into poetry like a mural.

postwar poetryurban sensibilitydaily lifevisuality
後藤一夫 ごとう かずお poetry prize

A poetry collection by Kazuo Goto, reportedly published with a preface by Mitsuharu Kaneko. Within the current of postwar poetry, it develops a lyricism combining introspection and a sense of the times, fitting its title of an ending chapter.

Carrying a consciousness of ending, it condenses postwar time and private inwardness into poetry.

111 pages
modern poetryintrospectionpostwar lifesense of endinglyricism
Shuko Ito いとう しゅうこ runner-up

A poetic work by Atsumu Ito. As an entry point to the later poetic style seen in his collected works, with dreams, images, childhood memory, and slippages of language, it quietly captures the presence of something arriving.

A poem that places the presence of an arrival between memory and dream.

modern poetryarrivalmemorydreamcinematic feeling
伊藤正斉 いとう せいさい poets prize

A poetry collection by Seisai Ito that moves from the tactile presence of clay toward bodily sensation and the roots of creation. In the firm language of postwar poetry, it holds both vitality and unease before form is fixed.

The weight of clay before it takes form evokes postwar sensations of body and creation.

98 pages
modern poetrymaterialitybodycreationpostwar poetry
小池鈴江 こいけ すずえ effort award

A poetry collection by Suzue Koike. Centered on the image of a luminous clock at night, it turns time, memory, and the quiet presence of daily life into poetry.

The glow of a clock in the dark quietly lights the texture of time and memory.

100 pages
timememorynighteveryday sensationmodern poetry
Takashi Arima ありま たく effort award

An early poetry collection by Takashi Arima. Through the image of a wall in twilight, it explores postwar social feeling, personal confinement, and the desire for what lies beyond.

The wall in twilight reflects both enclosure and poetry's force to move beyond it.

modern poetrypostwar societysymbolism of wallsconfinement and crossing
Shoya Iwasaki いわさき あきや effort award

A poetry collection by Akiya Iwasaki. Under the title Epitaph, it quietly treats words for the dead, inscriptions of memory, and the gaze of those left behind.

Like words carved in stone, the poems stand between the dead and memory.

86 pages
words for the deadmemorymodern poetrysymbolism of epitaphs
倉地宏光 くらち ひろみつ poets prize

Hiromitsu Kurachi's poetry collection, under a title that sounds like an address, shapes feelings toward self, others, and place through poetic language. Within postwar poetry, it can be read as a work where an individual voice intersects with a gaze toward community.

Words of address turn the place of self and others into poetry.

postwar poetryaddresscommunityplacelyricism
江頭彦造 えがしら ひこぞう effort award

Hikozo Egashira's work is a study of modern poetry. It examines poetic form and lyric expression, offering a theoretical perspective for reading postwar poetry.

It asks how lyricism and form work in poetry and searches for a way to read modern verse.

modern poetrypoeticslyricismcriticismpostwar poetry
Kei Hasegawa はせがわ けい effort award

棲り木と巣と is a poetry by 長谷川敬. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.

棲り木と巣と remains associated with 長谷川敬's award-winning career.

poetrylyricismpostwar literature
河合俊郎 かわい としろう poets prize

漁火 by 河合俊郎 is the work associated with this award entry. It is introduced here as a literary or scholarly work whose bibliographic status was checked against book databases rather than magazine issue identifiers.

An entry point for reading 漁火 by 河合俊郎 as an award-recognized work.

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伊藤勝行 いとう かつゆき effort award

卵を抱く眼 is a poetry collection by 伊藤勝行 that was recognized by the 中日詩賞. Available public sources mainly make it possible to trace its publication form and later inclusion in collections.

伊藤勝行's 卵を抱く眼 remains traceable today through its award history.

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Takashi Maeda まえだ たかし effort award

けものの智慧 is a work by 前田孝. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.

A prize-winning work by 前田孝.

Prize-winning workPublication statusLiterary context
小出ふみ子 こいで ふみこ poets prize

Hanashishu is a poetry collection by Fumiko Koide, published by Shinshijinsha in 1955. The book layers postwar everyday feeling with images of flowers, shaping intimate nature and emotional movement into lyric poems, and is recorded as the first recipient of the Chunichi Poetry Award.

A poetry collection in which memories and feelings entrusted to floral forms emerge as a quiet postwar lyricism.

149 pages
postwar poetryfloral imagerylyricismeveryday lifewomen's poetry
柏木よしお かしわぎ よしお effort award

Suimyaku no Hate is a poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi, published by Mokuba no Kai in 1955. Within the flow of postwar Japanese poetry, it can be placed as an early work that explores inner shadows and a sense of distance through images of life, time, the sea, and water.

Under a title evoking a current of water and its farthest edge, the quiet inwardness of postwar poetry comes into view.

postwar poetryimages of water and the seasense of timelife and deathinner landscape
Masao Iwase いわせ まさお poets prize

The second poetry collection by Toyohashi poet Masao Iwase. It expresses postwar local life, the ethical awareness of an author engaged in social education, and a sense of life under harsh summer light through taut poetic language.

Life and labor under the blazing sun are sounded as instruments of poetry.

158 pages
modern poetrylocal lifepostwar Japanvitality
長尾和男 ながお かずお poets prize

Kazuo Nagao's "Escape from Earth" is a poetry collection published soon after the war. Its title joins a cosmic sense of flight with the desire to escape the weight of reality, suggesting poems that express the era's anxiety and an impulse toward the future.

In a title that seems to shake off the weight of the earth, the anxiety of postwar poetry and its impulse toward the future resonate.

152 pages
postwar poetryfuturismspaceescapeanxiety
平光善久 ひらみつ よしひさ effort award

An early poetry collection by Yoshihisa Hiramitsu. Written against the background of the immediate postwar years and his activity in the Chubu poetry scene, it gathers poems shaped by bodily sensation, memory, nature, and everyday images.

An early collection that joins postwar unease with poetic imagination through dense metaphor and a firm sensory texture.

155 pages
postwar poetryChubu poetry scenememorybodily sensation
Kaichi Nakano なかの かいち poets prize

Haru no Byoreki is a poetry collection by Kaichi Nakano that portrays postwar bodily feeling and mental instability through the brightness of spring and the shadow of illness. By placing the clinical word byoreki, medical history, in the title, it refuses to confine lyricism to private sentiment and instead sees it as a wound of the times.

A sharp postwar lyricism where spring brightness crosses with the shadow of illness.

132 pages
modern poetryillnessspringpostwar poetrybodily feelinglyricism
河合俊郎 かわい としろう effort award

Toshiro Kawai's "Flying Fish" is a poetry collection recognized in the postwar poetry world. With the light image of a fish flying above the sea in its title, it appears to render in poetic language a momentary release from the weight of reality, the movement of light and water, and the leap of life.

This poetry collection layers the light and anxiety of postwar poetry over the image of flying fish leaping above the sea.

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