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Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう

Edition 13 (1965)

Poetry

Winners

3 people
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