Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう
Edition 1 (1952)
Winners
2 peopleHaru 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.
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.