Contemporary Tanka Newcomer Award げんだいたんかしんじんしょう
Edition 5 (2004)
TankaNewcomer Award
Winners
1 peopleMisako Kono's first tanka collection. It gathers bodily sensation, intimate distance, and emotions moving within silence in a soft tone that makes careful use of hiragana.
A collection that turns breath and the weight of a hand, things not fully made into words, into the sound of tanka.
195 pages
contemporary tankabodily sensationsilenceintimacyhiragana