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Dakotsu Prize だこつしょう

Edition 51 (2017)

Haiku

Winners

2 people
Mutsuo Takahashi たかはし むつお award

Mutsuo Takahashi's ninth haiku collection. A poet who has crossed free verse, fixed-form poetry, fiction, and other genres gathers ten years of haiku, showing the richness of Japanese and new possibilities for lyricism against the depth of the classics.

Across ten years of haiku, the collection builds a new lyricism between classical depth and the present.

224 pages
haikuthe classicsnew lyricisma decade of work
Yūko Masaki まさき ゆうこ award

A haiku collection by Yuko Masaki. Moving from everyday life toward her home region of Kumamoto, it gently yet deeply captures living things, nature, and sensitivity to long spans of time. Rather than declaring large themes loudly, it lets them settle inside the poems through supple observation.

Its gaze toward daily life, home, and living things sweeps the world clean like broad wings.

224 pages
haikuKumamoto as homeliving thingstime and nature