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Modern Haiku Association Award

げんだいはいくきょうかいしょう

Highest haiku award for members of the Modern Haiku Association

Haiku
Established
1947
Organizer
Modern Haiku Association
Category
Haiku and Haikai
Selection Method
Selection
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around February–March
Status
Active

Description

A haiku award held by the Modern Haiku Association alongside the Modern Haiku Grand Prize, Modern Haiku Newcomer Award, Modern Haiku Criticism Award, and Modern Haiku Association Annual Work Award. This award is the highest honor within the Modern Haiku Association targeting members' works (the Modern Haiku Grand Prize is a lifetime achievement award). It has produced many renowned haiku poets etched in haiku history, such as Persons of Cultural Merit, Japan Art Academy members, Jakuhatsu Prize winners, and others.

Selection

Selection Process

Selection method up to the 67th edition (2012 fiscal year)
Judges Members recommended by other members submit a selection of 50 haiku from their works over the past three years
Selection method from the 68th edition (2013 fiscal year) onwards
Judges Targets personal haiku collections of members recommended by qualified individuals

Related Awards

  • Modern Haiku Grand Prize
  • Modern Haiku Newcomer Award
  • Modern Haiku Criticism Award
  • Modern Haiku Association Annual Work Award

Official Resources

http://www.gendaihaiku.gr.jp/prize/kyokai/

Past Winners

Tsuneyuki Ooi おおい つねゆき award
董振華 とう しんか special award
武藤紀子 むとう のりこ special award
Seegan Mabesoone まぶそん せいがん award

A prize-winning haiku collection that reconsiders the present through the figure of the fairy Mab and an animistic sensibility. Its language carries an otherworldly atmosphere while shifting ordinary scenes into something newly vivid.

The author encountered the fairy known as Mab during the pandemic and uses that figure to reconsider the present through an animistic lens.

92 pages
contemporary haikuanimismfairyshifting the ordinaryotherworldly mood
Tokio Iguchi いぐち ときお award
203 pages
Kei Hayashi はやし かつら award

A haiku collection that follows the restorative power of flowers and the presence of life through a varied range of verses.

It portrays Earth as a planet of flowers with the compression unique to a haiku collection.

haiku collectionflowersloss and renewal
Kika Hotta ほりた きか award

A collection that crosses haiku and tanka while quietly capturing the post-pandemic world and human unease.

It reconsiders the light and shadow of humanity's afternoon in poised language.

149 pages
haiku collectionmodern poetrysense of the times
No winner
Bin Akio あきお びん award

Akio Bin’s first haiku collection, which fractures everyday scenes while sharply cutting out the world in verse.

It has the coherence of a haiku collection and the force of moments when language slips and shifts.

209 pages
haikucollectioneveryday lifeavant-garde
Masami Sanuga さぬが まさみ award

Muni is Masami Sanuga's seventh haiku collection, gathering work from 2014 to 2018. Rooted in nature and local climate, it layers the sensibility of fixed-form poetry with a lived sense of reality and illusion, entrusting haiku with the range of human imagination.

A haiku collection that seeks freedom where nature, fantasy, and daily life intersect.

160 pages
haikunaturefantasylived experience
Jugo Nagase ながせ じゅうご award

Mikazukiko is a haiku collection by Jugo Nagase. Around the title image of an oxbow lake, it lets landscapes and inner impressions settle into brief language, suggesting layered memory and time.

It reflects time preserved in the shape of water into the margins of haiku.

255 pages
haikuwatersidememorytime
清水伶 しみず れい award

A haiku collection by Rei Shimizu and the work recognized by the Modern Haiku Association Award. It captures nature, time, and bodily sensation in clear language, placing the tension of life behind quiet images.

As if hunting stars, the collection crystallizes faint presences into haiku images.

208 pages
modern haikunaturetimebodily sensationquietness
Yuko Onda おんだ ゆうふこ award

Yufuko Onda's fourth haiku collection gathers poems published from summer 2008 through spring 2016. It evokes scenes poised between reality and dream, combining a classical sensibility with a sharp contemporary eye.

A haiku collection in which drops of language form vivid scenes between dream and waking life.

173 pages
haikudreamlike visionnatureclassical sensibilitycontemporary haiku
Osamu Takaoka たかおか おさむ award

水の蝶 is an award-recognized work by 高岡修. This record separates the work's award identity from any bibliographic identifiers that could not be confirmed for a standalone book edition.

水の蝶 by 高岡修 is a work to revisit through the context of its award recognition.

poetryhaikuaward-winning work
Seiichiro Watanabe わたなべ せいいちろう award

A haiku collection by Seiichiro Watanabe. It records the atmosphere of post-disaster Tohoku and the memory of place with diction that evokes local deities and earth spirits. It was published in the Kogumaza series, but no public ISBN could be confirmed.

The short breath of haiku uncovers presences sleeping deep in the land.

haiku collectionTohokuafter the disastermemory of place
安西篤 あんざい あつし award

秋の道(タオ) is an award-winning work by 安西篤. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

秋の道(タオ), an award-winning work by 安西篤.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
Masako Kinbara かなはら まさこ special award

カルナヴァル is an award-winning work by 金原まさ子. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

カルナヴァル, an award-winning work by 金原まさ子.

128 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
Masahiko Hoshino ほしの まさひこ award

A haiku collection by Masahiko Hoshino recognized by the Modern Haiku Association.

A concise guide into the work's central mood and achievement.

285 pages
memoryformcontemporary expression
Midori Terui てるい みどり special award

A haiku collection shaped by the memory and shock of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

A concise guide into the work's central mood and achievement.

249 pages
memoryformcontemporary expression
前田弘 まえだ ひろし award
渋川京子 しぶかわ きょうこ award
前川弘明 まえかわ ひろあき award
Hiroshi Omaki おおまき ひろ award
田中いすず たなか いすず award
室生幸太郎 むろう こうたろう award
塩野谷仁 しおのやじん award
No winner
Hatta Kogarashi はった こがれ award
田村正義 たむら まさよし award
Takako Kobayashi こばやし たかこ award
Yoko Aza あざ ようこ award
Sayumi Kamakura かまくら さゆみ award
前田吐実男 まえだ とみお award
熊谷愛子 くまがい あいこ award
Akira Suzuki すずき あきら award
辻脇系一 つじわき けいいち award
大坪重治 おおつぼ しげはる award
Naruto Nana なると なな award
津根元潮 つねもと もとしお award
森下草城子 もりした そうじょうこ award
Kazuhiro Nakamura なかむら かずひろ award
岩下四十雀 いわした しじゅうじゃく award
たむらちせい たむら ちせい award
Shizuo Miyasaka みやさか しずお award
Machiko Kishimoto きしもと まちこ award
Mutsuo Takano たかの むつお award
Hideko Nakajima なかじま ひでこ award
Kazuko Hanatani はなたに かずこ award
星野明世 ほしの あきよ award
Michi Shibuya しぶや みち award
Futoshi Anai あない ふとし award
Itami Kimiko いたみ きみこ award
杉本雷造 すぎもと らいぞう award
鈴木詮子 すずき せんこ award
Kanichi Abe あべ かんいち award
桜井博道 さくらい ひろみち award
Goro Wada わだ ごろう award
Kyoko Terada てらだ きょうこ award
Haruto Kuma くま はると award
豊山千蔭 とよやま ちえ award
Mitsuhashi Toshio みはし としお award
上月章 こうづき あきら award
Fusae Fubasami ふみはさみ ふさえ award
Kineo Hayashida はやしだ きおねお award
Hori Ashio ほり あしお award
Akao Toko あかお とうこ award
Teruo Kozai こうざい てるお award
Mesaku Chichibu めざこ ちちぶ award
Ryuta Iida いいだ りゅうた award
Murio Suzuki すずき ろくりんお award
かねこ とうた award
Nomura Toshiro のむら とうしろう award
Setsuko Nozawa のざわ せつこ award
Onifusa Satō さとう きぶさ award
Ayako Hosomi ほそみ あやこ award
Hideno Ishibashi いしばし ひでの award