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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 11 (1963)

Poetry

Winners

2 people
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