Rekitei Prize (formerly Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize)
とうそんきねんれきていしょう
A literary prize hosted by the poetry magazine Rekitei, primarily honoring distinguished poetic achievement; since 2017 it has been treated as the Rekitei Prize.
- Established
- 1963
- Organizer
- Rekitei poetry magazine
- Category
- Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around October–November
- Status
- Active
Description
A literary award established by the poetry magazine "Rekitei" to commemorate Shimazaki Tōson. Centering on poetry collections, it also targets literary criticism and translations, with awards given to multifaceted artistic works such as verse drama, paintings, sculptures, architecture, music, and film. It was renamed the "Rekitei Award" from 2017.
Related Awards
- Rekitei New Talent Award
Official Resources
http://www.ykoseki.com/rekitei/index.htmlPast Winners
A poetic work that quietly examines loss and memory through the twin images of a garden and a letter. It is composed and avoids forcing emotion onto the reader.
It shapes feeling for the unreachable through the tactile presence of landscape.
A new poetry collection after five years, tracing subtle emotions and bodily sensations through quiet movement and memory.
Words arise in the space between walking and remembering.
A poetry collection that gathers short poems, easing the dampness of the heart.
It captures the passage of time until things cool down, as poetry.
A poetry collection that reads as a quiet sequence of poems capturing the texture of daily life.
It softly gives language to the contours of walking forward.
A poetry collection by Keiko Iwasaka. It gathers the texture of time hidden in everyday scenes and memories through a sequence of brief, attentive pieces. The title work and related poems leave a quiet afterimage of people and places close at hand.
A poetry collection that offers the tremor of familiar time like a pale light.
A poetry collection by Kohei Ikura. It portrays personal memory, family time, and the texture of a postwar generation in plain yet resonant language. A faint light, like fireflies seen from afar, reflects on time that has passed.
A poetry collection that follows memories of life as if guided by a distant light.
"Yohaku no Yoru" is a poetry collection by Seiichiro Iwaki and a winner of the 56th Rekitei Prize. Through poems of night, memory, travel, and light, it questions the certainty of what one touches and lets a quiet unease resonate like a circular narrative.
Twenty-two poems quietly wet memory, gathering unease and light from the margins of night.
Takuya Fukuda received the 56th Rekitei Prize for two books, "Wajinden Danpen" and "Wakusei no House Dust." "Wajinden Danpen" follows ancient place names and fragments of memory, expanding language toward a mythic space beyond individual life and death. The companion prizewinning volume, "Wakusei no House Dust," drives the physical force of language through fluid prose-poem structures.
Antiquity, place, body, and cosmic dust intersect in these prizewinning poetry books, where language itself keeps moving.
Kenichi Kurahashi's "Useru Kokyo" is a poetry collection in which supple utterance crosses with a will toward life and the present. Through deepening seasons, solitude, and bodily perception, it renders the loss of home and the resolve to stand in the present in firm language.
A poetry collection where a vanishing home and a will toward the present cross through the deepening seasons.
Takashi Kuroiwa's "Aogaya" is a poetry collection that layers moments flickering in darkness over the light and color of changing seasons. Images of an empty apartment, a pier, stone Buddhas, bellflowers, and blue sky illuminate the space between memory and landscape.
A poetry collection that layers flickering time in darkness over the light and color of recurring seasons.
耳の笹舟 is an award-recognized work by 石田瑞穂. This record separates the work's award identity from any bibliographic identifiers that could not be confirmed for a standalone book edition.
耳の笹舟 by 石田瑞穂 is a work to revisit through the context of its award recognition.
海へ is an award-recognized work by 高橋順子. The bibliographic review is based on the title recorded in the award data and keeps publication identifiers separate from magazine or submission records.
A work recorded as an award-recognized title by 高橋順子.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
Three voices summon an island, and the linked poems spread like a spell.
This award recognized Kiwao Nomura's poetry collections The Day Laid Bare and Nankai na Jitensha together with the English selected poems Spectacle & Pigsty. The works connect body, city, and linguistic dislocation through bold association and open postwar Japanese poetry to international readers.
Leaps of language and bodily sensation carry readers of contemporary poetry into unfamiliar terrain.
Kenji Fukuma’s poetry collection Aoi Ie is a substantial volume that records contemporary passion and melancholy at its own pace, turning the act of continuing to write into a proof of existence.
From a place where one can neither advance nor return, the words still set out as if to meet someone.
Renshi in Space is a JAXA-supervised volume documenting a linked-poetry project that carries poetry into a space-themed international setting, combining contributions from astronauts, poets, and public submissions with space imagery.
Words looking toward space connect across borders and generations into a single linked poem.
Renshi in Space is a JAXA-supervised volume documenting a linked-poetry project that carries poetry into a space-themed international setting, combining contributions from astronauts, poets, and public submissions with space imagery.
Words looking toward space connect across borders and generations into a single linked poem.
A Poetry Collection: Sheep Clouds on the Table / A Dog Named Milk Tea under the Table is a 詩集 by 相沢正一郎. It draws readers into its world through choices made by the characters, shifting relationships, and tension within each scene.
A Poetry Collection: Sheep Clouds on the Table / A Dog Named Milk Tea under the Table is a focused award-related work with a clear shape as 詩集.
A Poetry Collection: Exposure is a 詩集 by 高貝弘也. It draws readers into its world through choices made by the characters, shifting relationships, and tension within each scene.
A Poetry Collection: Exposure is a focused award-related work with a clear shape as 詩集.
A critical work centered on the poet Mitsuharu Kaneko and the crossing of modern Japanese poetry with French literature. Through poetic language, travel, and cross-cultural perception, it reads a literary encounter within history.
金子光晴、ランボーと会う is shaped by the premise and narrative voice that supported its award recognition.
Collected Essays on Chuya Nakahara gathers Toru Kitagawa's criticism on Nakahara, placing his poetry at the core of modern Japanese verse and rereading lyricism and otherness in depth.
A long critical journey digs into the lyric force at the heart of Nakahara's poetry.
A collected edition surveying Takashi Okai’s long career in tanka. It offers a view of changing expression from postwar to contemporary tanka and his inquiry into thought, body, and language.
A collected edition surveying Takashi Okai’s long career in tanka.
幸福 by 井川博年 is an award-recognized work built around poetry and language, the paradox of happiness, memory. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.
幸福 draws the reader into a story shaped by poetry and language.
神々の闘争 折口信夫論 by 安藤礼二 is an award-recognized work built around criticism, Shinobu Orikuchi, modern thought. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.
神々の闘争 折口信夫論 draws the reader into a story shaped by criticism.
詩集『蟹場(がにば)まで』に至る菅江真澄に関する営為 is a work recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award in 2005. The available information identifies it as a selected work for that award.
詩集『蟹場(がにば)まで』に至る菅江真澄に関する営為, a work recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award.
評伝『北原白秋』 is a work recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award in 2005. The available information identifies it as a selected work for that award.
評伝『北原白秋』, a work recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award.
This work is introduced in Japanese sources; the English note summarizes its subject and appeal without relying on a published translation.
A concise introduction to the work based on Japanese bibliographic and publisher information.
This work is introduced in Japanese sources; the English note summarizes its subject and appeal without relying on a published translation.
A concise introduction to the work based on Japanese bibliographic and publisher information.
全詩集 is a 2003 recognized work by 吉本隆明. It stands within the context of 受賞作 and foregrounds the author's voice and structure.
全詩集, a recognized work by 吉本隆明, is shaped by 受賞作.
箱入豹 is a 2003 recognized work by 井坂洋子. It stands within the context of 受賞作 and foregrounds the author's voice and structure.
箱入豹, a recognized work by 井坂洋子, is shaped by 受賞作.
朗読の業績 is a work by 幸田弘子. 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.
朗読の業績 can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.
詩集『ことばのつえ、ことばのつえ』 is a work by 藤井貞和. 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.
詩集『ことばのつえ、ことばのつえ』 can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.
A critical study that treats the book not merely as a medium but as an object with material presence and intellectual history, tracing ideas of the book from antiquity to modern writers such as Mallarmé and Hugo.
The physical book and literary dreaming overlap, opening the depth of European intellectual history.
詩集『群青、わが黙示』『南冥・旅の終わり』『わたつみ・しあわせな日日』の三部作 is a work by 辻井喬. It was recognized by 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
詩集『群青、わが黙示』『南冥・旅の終わり』『わたつみ・しあわせな日日』の三部作, recognized by 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
"詩集『はたはたと頁がめくれ・・・』及びその全業績" is a work by 新川 和江. It is recognized in the context of its award field, including literature, criticism, children's writing, mystery, or related genres.
"詩集『はたはたと頁がめくれ・・・』及びその全業績" is an award-winning work that reflects 新川 和江's distinctive approach.
A group of works that draw out the sound, texture, and lived energy of Japanese through dialect poetry, recitation, invective, and familiar school songs.
A group of works that draw out the sound, texture, and lived energy of Japanese through dialect poetry, recitation, invective, and familiar school songs.
詩集『晴夜』 is a 作品 by 池井昌樹 and was recognized by the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
The title 詩集『晴夜』 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.
詩集『星間の採譜術』『触感の解析学』『月光の遠近法』の三部作 is a 作品 by 高柳誠 and was recognized by the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
The title 詩集『星間の採譜術』『触感の解析学』『月光の遠近法』の三部作 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.
詩集『通り過ぎる女たち』 is a work by 清岡卓行. It is known as a recipient of fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award and presents the author's concerns and style.
詩集『通り過ぎる女たち』 presents the literary world of 清岡卓行.
鎮魂歌 is a 文学作品 by 那珂太郎. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.
A work that conveys 那珂太郎's style through the world suggested by the title 鎮魂歌.
全業績 is a work by 柴田南雄. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.
全業績 reflects the qualities in 柴田南雄's writing that drew award attention.
全業績、葉紀甫 漢詩詞集 is an award-winning work by 岡本太郎. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.
全業績、葉紀甫 漢詩詞集 presents the literary world of 岡本太郎.
A linked poetry collection that views the year 1990 from multiple angles. It renders social instability and personal drift through firm, reflective language.
It inscribes the feel of a drifting age through a sequence of many-eyed poems.
A haiku collection by Kureo Manabe, layering fantasy and multiple meanings onto a gaze fixed on life and death. Echoing the folkloric image of the snow woman, it gives dense shadows to brief poems.
A haiku collection clothed in the shadow of the snow woman, staring at the border of life and death.
A collection of criticism by Masashi Miura. Moving across literature, art, dance, and music, it reconsiders modern individuality and Western logic while reading creative possibility in the warped time and space of colonial culture.
A forceful critical collection crossing literature, the body, thought, and the arts.
A Japanese translation of poetry by the Chinese poet Mang Ke, translated by Shun Korenaga. Against the background of the poetic energy around the underground journal Jintian, it conveys a lyric clarity that looks through a dark age and at difficult lives.
A Japanese volume that brings the lyricism and historical shadows of modern Chinese poetry into Japanese.
This award recognized Yutaka Haniya’s body of achievement rather than a single book, spanning fiction, poetry, and criticism. His work pursued metaphysical questions through both fiction and essays and broadened the intellectual reach of postwar Japanese literature.
The award honored not one bibliographic item but a sustained act of thought within postwar literature.
蠣崎波響の生涯 is an award-winning work by 中村真一郎. It can be read as a concentrated expression of the author's concerns, shaped through its themes, narrative tone, and handling of character and scene.
蠣崎波響の生涯 invites readers to approach it through the expressive force that drew attention at the time of the award.
悪霊 is an award-winning work by 粕谷栄市. It can be read as a concentrated expression of the author's concerns, shaped through its themes, narrative tone, and handling of character and scene.
悪霊 invites readers to approach it through the expressive force that drew attention at the time of the award.
聲 is a work by 川田順造 selected in the 1988 cycle of 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞). As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
聲 by 川田順造, recognized by 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
水辺逆旅歌 is a work by 入沢康夫 selected in the 1988 cycle of 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞). As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
水辺逆旅歌 by 入沢康夫, recognized by 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
天使・蝶・白い雲などいくつかの瞑想/かぜのひきかた is a 詩集 by 辻征夫. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.
天使・蝶・白い雲などいくつかの瞑想/かぜのひきかた condenses the qualities of 辻征夫's work in the form of a 詩集.
opus is a 詩集 by 朝吹亮二. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.
opus condenses the qualities of 朝吹亮二's work in the form of a 詩集.
A poetry collection by Hasegawa Ryusei. It treats intellect and love not as opposites but as forces moving back and forth, looking at human existence with the tension of postwar poetry.
A collection that questions human roots while moving between intellect and love.
A poetry collection by Kitamura Taro. Although its title foregrounds the lightness of laughter, the poems use dry language to catch slippages of words, urban feeling, and uncertainty of being.
Behind the lightness of laughter remains the uncertainty of words and being.
薬玉 is a 詩集 by 吉岡実. A poetry collection whose title evokes a ceremonial ornament while assembling impressions of life and death through vivid images and a dry sensibility.
薬玉 is an award-recognized work that shows the qualities of 吉岡実's writing and thought.
装幀の業績 is a design work by 菊地信義. An award recognition of Nobuyoshi Kikuchi’s book-design work, valuing not only visual appearance but also the material sense that supports reading.
装幀の業績 is an award-recognized work that shows the qualities of 菊地信義's writing and thought.
砂族 by 白石かずこ is a 詩集 that presents its subject through careful observation and controlled language. It draws readers into the emotional pressure behind its images while keeping the focus on the work itself.
砂族 is an important 詩集 for understanding 白石かずこ's literary world.
中型製氷機についての連続するメモ is a work by 岩成達也 associated with the 1981 cycle of 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞). In its award context, it was recognized for its distinctive subject matter, form, or contribution to contemporary literary and artistic expression.
A work by 岩成達也 recognized in the context of 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
A large translation of six major Icelandic sagas, representing medieval Norse literature and depicting heroes, blood revenge, magic, settlement, and colonization. It conveys Viking-age society, belief, law, and honor through powerful saga prose.
Through blood revenge and heroic destinies, the world of medieval Iceland rises into view.
“Kaisha no Jinji” is a poetry collection centered on poems Masao Nakagiri wrote in his fifties. The institution of the company, daily resignation, distrust of words, and anger and sadness toward the age quietly resonate through a plain sonnet-like form.
Resignation sunk into company life takes on deep shadows in a fourteen-line poetic form.
熱風 a thousand steps is a work by 吉増剛造 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.
熱風 a thousand steps brings 詩 and 身体感覚 into focus through the form of 詩集.
飯島耕一詩集 is a work by 飯島耕一 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.
飯島耕一詩集 brings 詩 and 身体感覚 into focus through the form of 詩集.
出縄 is a work by 藤田昭子 that uses the form of 詩集 to portray human feeling and the atmosphere of its time. Its award recognition suggests a lasting impression created by its subject matter and controlled style.
出縄 brings 詩 and 身体感覚 into focus through the form of 詩集.
宮沢賢治とその展開 is a work by 斎藤文一. It presents its subject through carefully shaped scenes and a voice rooted in its literary moment.
宮沢賢治とその展開 follows people and their time through the form of 評論.
les invisibles is a work by 天沢退二郎. It presents its subject through carefully shaped scenes and a voice rooted in its literary moment.
les invisibles follows people and their time through the form of 詩集.
安東次男著作集 is a 評論・詩文集 by 安東次男. Recognized by the prize, it presents the author's literary voice within its period.
A 評論・詩文集 recognized in the context of 藤村記念歴程賞受賞対象.
Michi no Sekai no Tankyu recognizes Naomi Uemura’s polar exploration and pursuit of the unknown as an act with poetic force. Rather than a conventional literary book, the award placed his bodily exploration of the world’s limits within the scope of literary imagination.
未知の世界の探求 presents 植村直己's work as an award-recognized title.
Ulysses / Kibun brings together a title resonant with Joycean wandering and another suggesting uncanny writing and voices. The award recognized Taro Yamamoto’s experimental movement of language.
ユリシィズ / 鬼文 presents 山本太郎's work as an award-recognized title.
われアルカディアにもあり is a work of poetry or criticism by 渋沢孝輔. It is recognized as a winning work of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞), reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
われアルカディアにもあり offers an entry point into 渋沢孝輔's literary expression through the context of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
湯川秀樹論 is a work of poetry or criticism by 高内壮介. It is recognized as a winning work of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞), reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
湯川秀樹論 offers an entry point into 高内壮介's literary expression through the context of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
望郷と海 is a work of poetry or criticism by 石原吉郎. It is recognized as a winning work of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞), reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
望郷と海 offers an entry point into 石原吉郎's literary expression through the context of the 歴程賞(旧・藤村記念歴程賞).
A substantial definitive collection of Shigeo Washizu's poetry. Religious vision, exotic diction, and an intense gaze toward death and the soul are gathered into a single volume tracing a long poetic career.
Vision and prayer overlap as the poems descend into the depths of the soul.
石果集 is a work by 本郷隆; a book edition was published by 歴程社 in 1970.
石果集 stands in 本郷隆's award record.
岡崎清一郎詩集 is a work by 岡崎清一郎; a book edition was published by 思潮社 in 1970.
岡崎清一郎詩集 stands in 岡崎清一郎's award record.
評論集『詩の空間』『詩人たち』 is a work by 粟津則雄 recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.
評論集『詩の空間』『詩人たち』, a work recognized by the fujimura-memorial-rekitei-award.
This critical collection traces postwar Japanese modern poetry through poetic lineage and intellectual history. It reads poems as a meeting point of era, bodily sensation, and critical awareness rather than as isolated language.
A work of criticism that rereads modern poetry as a movement of the spirit within its age.
炎える母 is a 長篇詩 by 宗左近. It is presented here as a work shaped by 長篇詩, 母, 記憶.
炎える母 preserves 宗左近's voice in the form of 長篇詩.
A poetry collection that expands postwar poetic language with realism and critical force, joining everyday roughness with intellectual humor.
岩田宏詩集 is an award-winning work in which 岩田宏's vision is concentrated around modern poetry.
A work that gathers the poet’s long career, marked by modernist acuity and the force of images compressed into brief language.
詩業 is an award-winning work in which 安西冬衛's vision is concentrated around poetry.
IL is a poetry collection that shows Mitsuharu Kaneko's late poetic thought, intertwining bodily sensation, aging, foreign experience, and solitude. A later facsimile of the manuscript notebook also makes it possible to trace the work's formation from draft materials.
A poetry collection in which Kaneko's late sensations and thought crystallize into dense poetic language.
Illustrated Insect Album is Makoto Tsuji's satirical collection of insect images and short prose pieces drawn from magazine work. Its observations of insects fold together social criticism, humor, and a touch of the grotesque, condensing Tsuji's range as artist and poet.
A satirical illustrated prose collection that uses insects to reveal the comedy and pain of human society.
Poets: Selections from Eureka is a posthumous collection by Tokuo Date, the publisher behind Shoshi Eureka. It is read as documentary prose that preserves the relationships of postwar poets and the practice of literary publishing.
A posthumous collection that conveys the atmosphere of postwar poetry through the eyes of a publisher who sustained poets and poetry magazines.