Japanese Literary Awards

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Rekitei Prize (formerly Fujimura Memorial Rekitei Prize) とうそんきねんれきていしょう

Edition 24 (1986)

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Winners

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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.

poetryintellectlovepostwar poetry

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.

poetrylaughterurban sensibilitylanguage