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Modern Haiku Association Award げんだいはいくきょうかいしょう

Edition 80 (2025)

Haiku

Winners

3 people
Tsuneyuki Ooi おおい つねゆき award

A haiku collection selected from work written over the twenty-three years from 2000 to 2023. Through images of water and the moon, it weaves memories of war, social fracture, and landscapes suggestive of prayer into sharply metaphorical language.

A collection that looks toward the history and memory behind things that, like the moon reflected on water, cannot be grasped.

140 pages
contemporary haikumemory of warhistorywater and moonprayer
董振華 とう しんか special award

A Japanese-Chinese bilingual haiku collection by Dong Zhenhua, a poet from Beijing. It views the Yellow River, birds, and shifting seasons through a wide lens, joining a wish for a world without war to quiet attentiveness to details of nature in seventeen-syllable poems.

The Yellow River's autumn voice, its ripples stretching on and on.

182 pages
Japanese-Chinese bilingual haikuthe Yellow River and natureseasonal perceptiona wish for peacepoetry across borders
武藤紀子 むとう のりこ special award

Amehata Suzuri is a haiku collection by Noriko Muto. Its poems connect places and people from the poet's memories, looking back on the past and ahead to what follows while bringing their emotional backgrounds into view.

A haiku collection that traces the memories behind a poem and the direction of the soul.

208 pages
haikumemoryplacehuman connections