Chunichi Poetry Award ちゅうにちししょう
Edition 49 (2001)
Poetry
Winners
2 peopleRitsu 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
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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.
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