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Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Award

げんだいしはなつばきしょう

A literary award sponsored by Shiseido as part of its mecenas activities, targeting collections of contemporary poetry.

Literary awardPoetry collectionContemporary poetry
Established
1983
Organizer
Shiseido
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Status
Ended

Description

Sponsored by Shiseido as part of its mecenas activities, this literary award was given to the most outstanding collection of contemporary poetry published from September 1 of the previous year to August 31 of the current year. Concluded after 35 editions.

Prize

Main Prize
1 outstanding poetry collection

Selection

Selection Process

Selection
Judges
Announcement Shiseido's monthly magazine "Hanatsubaki"

Related Awards

  • List of literary awards

Official Resources

https://corp.shiseido.com/jp/sustainability/inspire/

Past Winners

Yoko Isaka いさか ようこ award

A poetry collection by Yoko Isaka that gathers subtle tremors hidden in everyday time and bodily sensation through restrained language. Searches of Amazon Japan, NDL/CiNii, and publisher-related sources did not locate an ISBN-bearing book record; used-book records identify it as a 2017 Kuriumisha volume of 105 pages, apparently privately or narrowly distributed.

A collection in which memory and sensation quietly loosen from a July cluster of time.

105 pages
contemporary poetryseasonal timebodily sensationmemory
伊藤悠子 いとう ゆうこ award

まだ空はじゅうぶん明るいのに is an award-winning work by 伊藤悠子. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

まだ空はじゅうぶん明るいのに looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

93 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturememorysocietyexpression
Tahi Saihate さいはて たひ award

死んでしまう系のぼくらに is an award-winning work by 最果タヒ. 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 死んでしまう系のぼくらに, the work leads readers toward the author viewpoint and the core of the story.

100 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturecharacter depictionmemory and time
Ishimure Michiko いしむれ みちこ award

祖さまの草の邑 is a work by 石牟礼道子 known for its careful treatment of the themes described in the Japanese bibliographic record.

祖さまの草の邑 is a work by 石牟礼道子 that continues to draw attention through its award history.

award-winning literaturememoryhuman relationships
藤原安紀子 ふじわら あきこ award

ア ナザ ミミクリ is a Japanese literary work by 藤原安紀子. 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.

127 pages
memorylanguagehuman relationships
Shuri Kido きど あかり award

A sequence of prose poems that gathers language and memory from nameless fragments washed ashore on the coast of Kamakura. Through the impersonal presence of driftage, it unfolds reflections on the shore, time, life, and the beginning of the world, accompanied by photographs.

From nameless fragments at the water's edge, impersonal voices begin to spill out.

156 pages
prose poetryshorelinedriftagetimeimpersonality
季村敏夫 きむら としお award

ノミトビヒヨシマルの独言 is an award-winning work by 季村敏夫. Amazon JP, NDL, and related publisher records were checked, but no ISBN for a standalone book or paperback containing the work could be confirmed. Magazine and article identifiers were not reused.

ノミトビヒヨシマルの独言, recorded as an award-winning work by 季村敏夫.

award-winning workliteratureauthorial concern
Kaoru Udo うどう かおる 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.

93 pages
受賞作人間関係緊張余韻
Tatsuya Iwanari いわなり たつや award

みどり、その日々を過ぎて。 is a 詩集 by 岩成達也. As an award-recognized work, it concentrates the author's concerns and explores its subject through a distinctive style.

みどり、その日々を過ぎて。 condenses the author's central concerns behind its brief title.

memorylanguagerelationships
奥田春美 おくだ はるみ award

Harumi Okuda’s third poetry collection traces everyday life, the body, memory, and the presence of life and death in language marked by quietness and humor. It received the 26th Contemporary Poetry Hanatsubaki Award.

A poetry collection that watches what emerges from ordinary days with quiet feeling and humor.

94 pages
contemporary poetryeveryday lifebodymemory
Kazue Niikawa にいかわ かずえ award

記憶する水 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time. Fragments of daily life connect to deep inner movement.

記憶する水 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time.

137 pages
poetrymemorytimebody
Seiji Tsutsumi つじい たかし award

鷲がいて by 辻井喬 is introduced as a work shaped by 現代詩, 記憶. It presents its subject through a focused literary voice and is connected with the prize history of the work.

A concise entry point into 鷲がいて, where the work's central mood and conflict come forward.

119 pages
現代詩記憶都市孤独
ふじい さだかず award

神の子犬 is a work by fujii-sadakazu. It was recognized by the contemporary poetry hanatsubaki award in 2005 and centers on the people, places, or events suggested by its title.

神の子犬 can be read through the themes and narrative qualities that drew attention at the time of the award.

award-winning literaturecontemporary expressionstory and memory
Chuei Yagi やぎ ただえ award

A poetry collection by Chuei Yagi. It gathers small scenes and voices from daily life while drawing out the strange brightness and solitude at the edge of reality.

From the veranda of daily life, voices of flowers, fields, and school corridors rise.

99 pages
contemporary poetrydaily lifenaturevoicememory
Kiwao Nomura のむら きわお award

ニューインスピレーション is a 2003 recognized work by 野村喜和夫. It stands within the context of 現代詩 and foregrounds the author's voice and structure.

ニューインスピレーション, a recognized work by 野村喜和夫, is shaped by 現代詩.

現代詩批評性詩的実験
Takayuki Kiyóoka きよおか たかゆき award

一瞬 is a work by 清岡卓行. 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.

一瞬 can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.

poetryresonance of languageaward-winning work
Hiroya Takagai たかがい ひろや award

Hiroya Takagai's poetry collection crystallizes what lies between life and death, voice and silence, the visible and invisible into a sense of prayer and light. Against memories of loss after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, it seeks the place where language can rise again.

A collection that does not merely retrace what was lost, but feels light as an unceasing prayer.

poetrylightprayerloss and renewal
山崎るり子 やまざき るりこ award

A poetry collection by Ruriko Yamazaki that draws details of daily life, the body, and memory from the familiar space of the kitchen.

だいどころ

poetrydaily lifekitchen
Masaki Ikei いけい まさき award

"月下の一群" is a work by 池井 昌樹. It is recognized in the context of its award field, including literature, criticism, children's writing, mystery, or related genres.

"月下の一群" is an award-winning work that reflects 池井 昌樹's distinctive approach.

139 pages
award-winning workliteratureauthorial style
Chimako Tada ただ ちまこ award
Masayo Koike こいけ まさよ award

永遠に来ないバス is a 詩集 by 小池昌代 and was recognized by the 現代詩花椿賞.

The title 永遠に来ないバス points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

96 pages
詩集現代詩花椿賞contemporary literature
Yukio Tsuji つじ ゆきお award

俳諧辻詩集 is a work by 辻征夫. It is known as a recipient of contemporary-poetry-hanatsubaki-award and presents the author's concerns and style.

俳諧辻詩集 presents the literary world of 辻征夫.

158 pages
award-winning workliterary expressionauthorial themes
Mikio Yagi やぎ みきお award

"野菜畑のソクラテス" is an award-winning work by 八木幹夫, recognized by the 現代詩花椿賞. It can be read as a representative work that concentrates the author style and concerns.

An award-winning work in which 八木幹夫 brings the force of the title "野菜畑のソクラテス" into focus.

89 pages
award-winning work現代詩花椿賞authorial style
Yasuo Irisawa いりさわ やすお award

漂ふ舟・わが地獄くだり is a work by 入沢康夫. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of contemporary-poetry-hanatsubaki-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

漂ふ舟・わが地獄くだり reflects the qualities in 入沢康夫's writing that drew award attention.

award-winning work1994literature
Mutsuo Takahashi たかはし むつろう award

旅の絵 is an award-winning work by 高橋睦郎. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.

旅の絵 presents the literary world of 高橋睦郎.

award-winning workauthorial voiceliterary expression
Toriko Takarabe たからべ とりこ award

This poetry collection by Toriko Takarabe layers memory, loss, and images of light in the threshold space of a courtyard. The poet’s sensibility, shaped in part by the experience of Manchuria, illuminates fragments like a magic lantern.

88 pages
記憶
Masato Inagawa いながわ かたひと award

A poetry collection by Masato Inagawa. Awareness of poetic form, cinematic imagery, and resistance to and return toward lyricism gather under a title that suggests immense time and distance.

The metaphor of two thousand light-years vividly illuminates the gap between language and world.

85 pages
modern poetrydistancecinematic imagerylanguage
Junko Takahashi たかはし じゅんこ award

Happy Leaves is a work by 高橋順子. 高橋順子の詩集。日常の感覚と自然の細部をすくい取り、幸福という言葉の奥にあるかすかな揺れを詩にする。

Happy Leaves is an award-winning work read in the context of 現代詩.

現代詩日常自然
Makoto Ooka おおおか まこと award

故郷の水へのメッセージ is an award-recognized work by 大岡信. It leaves a lasting impression through its focus on people, its period, and its mode of expression.

故郷の水へのメッセージ is a work in which 大岡信's expression was recognized through an award.

141 pages
award-winning workliteraturehuman drama
Motoo Ando あんどう もとお award

A poetry collection that listens for sounds hidden in night’s quiet and layers thought with sensation. Its restrained voice deepens both darkness and reflection.

夜の音 conveys a central aspect of 安藤元雄’s work.

poetrylandscapebodily sensationlanguage
Ryo Kisaka きさか りょう award

A work that turns small discoveries in daily life into poetry through springing sound and bodily sensation. Its light movement of language makes the world feel newly touched.

ツッツッと conveys a central aspect of 木坂涼’s work.

poetrylandscapebodily sensationlanguage
Saga Nobuyuki さが のぶゆき award

A poetry collection by Saga Nobuyuki. It links place names and human names, exploring in restrained poetic language how places sustain memory and existence.

In named places, human memory quietly resides.

poetryplacenamesmemory
Shuntaro Tanikawa たにかわ しゅんたろう award
Gōzō Yoshimasu よしまず ごうぞう award

オシリス、石ノ神 is a 詩集 by 吉増剛造. A poetry collection published by Shichosha. Its dense language around stone and mythic figures lets voice, body, and memory intersect.

オシリス、石ノ神 is an award-recognized work that shows the qualities of 吉増剛造's writing and thought.

81 pages
modern poetrymythic imageryembodiment
Hitoshi Anzai あんざい ひとし award

暗喩の夏 is a 詩集 by 安西均. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

暗喩の夏 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

memoryfamilyhistorical momentselfhood