H Award
えいちししょう
An annual literary award given to outstanding collections of Japanese poetry written by new poets
- Established
- 1950
- Organizer
- Japan Contemporary Poets Association
- Category
- Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around March–June
- Status
- Active
Description
The H Award (H-shi-shō) is a literary award sponsored by the Japan Contemporary Poets Association, aimed at widely recommending to society the poetry collections of outstanding new contemporary poets. It is also known as the Akutagawa Prize of the poetry world.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Commemorative item and 500,000 yen prize money
- Cash Prize
- 500,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary selection | Members of the Japan Contemporary Poets Association | — | — |
| Final selection | Selection committee | — | — |
Related Awards
- Japan Poets Club Newcomers Award
Official Resources
https://www.japan-poets-association.com/award/Past Winners
A poetry collection that follows memory, loss, and the feeling of distance while touching the unstable mind and body of the present. It reexamines the relation between care and perception through a sense of disorientation.
Forgotten separations and stolen air. A shifting form of “distance therapy” dedicated to an age of disorientation.
A poetry collection that chooses omission and lets the space between reality, memory, and dream vibrate.
Words that, like a silent instrument, make the air tremble.
A poetry collection by Kentaro Takatsuka that shifts language and image to blur the boundary between poem and song.
When “poem” and “song” come together, the words acquire a fresh beauty.
On Forgetting is Nobuya Mizushita's first poetry collection, gathering twenty-nine poems that illuminate the depths of memory. Hard-edged yet fragile diction and dreamlike visions quietly deform the outlines of everyday life.
At the bottom of what has been forgotten, language flickers into light.
Tawako Juda's first poetry collection. It layers memories of Oyu in Akita, resonances of Orthodox Christianity, and distant calls, tracing individual life and the time flowing through a place in language touched by sacredness.
A distant call reconnects the memory of a place with a single life.
Chiyo Kitahara's poetry collection traces the wavering of the sensed world through river water, bodily perception, and fragile memory, using language with a baroque curve and density.
A poetry collection that draws near the presences hidden by water through the senses of body and language.
零余子回報 is an award-recognized work by 森本孝徳. This record separates the work's award identity from any bibliographic identifiers that could not be confirmed for a standalone book edition.
零余子回報 by 森本孝徳 is a work to revisit through the context of its award recognition.
Kei Okamotos first poetry collection. Centered on poems written during his stay in the United States, it links urban voices, bodily sensation, and shifting memory in vivid language, showing the outward energy of a young poet.
From the tremor of a forgotten voice, poems step outward into the world.
ひかりの途上で is an award-winning work by 峯澤典子. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.
ひかりの途上で, an award-winning work by 峯澤典子.
A poetry collection built from travel notes and spare, resonant lines.
A concise guide into the work's central mood and achievement.
化車 is an award-winning work by 廿楽順治. Public bibliographic sources were checked first for book identifiers, then for descriptive information about the work.
A bibliographic profile of 化車, based on award records and public book data.
傍らの男 is a work by 高木敏次. It is introduced here as a literary-award work, with bibliographic details checked against book databases, publisher pages, and retail records where available.
A concise guide to 傍らの男, the award-recognized work by 高木敏次.
石の記憶 is a work by 田原. Poetic language gathers tremors of memory, place, and bodily sensation.
石の記憶 draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.
A poetry collection that shifts everyday objects and bodily sensations to evoke memory and absence. Its sequences of compact phrases carry both fable-like strangeness and a sharp sense of reality.
マッチ売りの偽書 is read as a 詩集 connected with 中島悦子's award recognition.
Sodeguchi no Dobutsu is a poetry collection by Maiko Sugimoto that draws bodily sensation and emotion into sharply cut language. Love, prayer, and a tenderness close to anger rise from ordinary details with an uneasy vitality.
A collection in which the heat of contradictory life stirs beneath the language like an animal glimpsed at a cuff.
ヒムル、割れた野原 is an award-winning work by 野木京子. It is presented here as a work recognized for the tension of its scenes, relationships, and expressive control.
ヒムル、割れた野原 is a work read through the lens of its award recognition and the author's distinctive style.
パルナッソスへの旅 by 相沢正一郎 is an award-recognized work built around a mountain journey, mythic imagination, poetry and language. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.
パルナッソスへの旅 draws the reader into a story shaped by a mountain journey.
あまのがわ is a work recognized by the h-shi-award in 2005. The available information identifies it as a selected work for that award.
あまのがわ, a work recognized by the h-shi-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.
アリア、この夜の裸体のために is a 2003 recognized work by 河津聖恵. It stands within the context of 現代詩 and foregrounds the author's voice and structure.
アリア、この夜の裸体のために, a recognized work by 河津聖恵, is shaped by 現代詩.
密約-オブリガート is a work by 松尾真由美. 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.
密約-オブリガート can be read through the themes and verbal force that drew attention at the time of the award.
A poetry collection that opens the imagery of science and the laboratory into fantasy, making thought itself shift like an experiment. Familiar instruments and knowledge become strange sensations in language.
The cool light of a science room becomes a poetic space where fantasy and thought mix.
TAIWAN is a work by 龍秀美. It was recognized by H氏賞.
TAIWAN, recognized by H氏賞.
"七月の鏡" is a poetry work by 鍋島幹夫. Its publication as a book is confirmed, and it is treated as the award-winning work.
"七月の鏡" is recognized as a poetry work.
A poetry collection that uses the sensation of gathering air to reconnect body, memory, and landscape with delicate precision.
A poetry collection that uses the sensation of gathering air to reconnect body, memory, and landscape with delicate precision.
うしろめた屋 is a 作品 by 山田隆昭 and was recognized by the H氏賞.
The title うしろめた屋 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.
産後思春期症候群 is a work by 片岡直子. It is known as a recipient of h-shi-award and presents the author's concerns and style.
産後思春期症候群 presents the literary world of 片岡直子.
霊岸 is a 文学作品 by 岩佐なを. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.
A work that conveys 岩佐なを's style through the world suggested by the title 霊岸.
生きる水 is a work by 高塚かず子. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of h-shi-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.
生きる水 reflects the qualities in 高塚かず子's writing that drew award attention.
地球の水辺 is an award-winning work by 以倉紘平. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.
地球の水辺 presents the literary world of 以倉紘平.
Orchard by 本多寿 is a Japanese poetry collection. 日常の感覚と内面の揺れを、果樹園というひらけた場のイメージに重ねる詩集。生活の細部から立ち上がる静かな余韻が、読者を思索へ導く。
Orchard distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.
A poetry collection by Akihito Sugitani subtitled A Sequel to Miyazaki Place Names. It links place names to the texture of daily life and looks at human existence through Miyazaki as a lived place.
From Miyazaki place names, the poems shape human life and local memory.
キリンの洗濯 by 高階杞一 is a prize-recognized work. 身近な言葉と意外なイメージを組み合わせ、日常の景色を少しずらして見せる詩集。明るい題名の背後に、孤独や生の手触りが静かににじむ。
キリンの洗濯 shows the central qualities of 高階杞一.
別れの準備 is an award-winning work by 藤本直規. 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.
別れの準備 invites readers to approach it through the expressive force that drew attention at the time of the award.
神サマの夜 is a work by 真下章 selected in the 1988 cycle of H氏賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
神サマの夜 by 真下章, recognized by H氏賞.
さるやんまだ is a 詩集 by 佐々木安美. 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.
さるやんまだ condenses the qualities of 佐々木安美's work in the form of a 詩集.
梁塵 is a 詩集 by 永塚幸司. 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.
梁塵 condenses the qualities of 永塚幸司's work in the form of a 詩集.
A poetry collection by Yuriika Suzuki that links movement, urban life, love, and bodily sensation through sharp poetic language, presenting a modern individual voice in motion.
A poetry collection that captures the moving body and the feeling of love at the speed of modern verse.
ヘンゼルとグレーテルの島 is a 詩集 by 水野るり子. A poetry collection that begins from a fairy-tale-like title and develops loneliness, memory, and the enclosed feeling of an island as modern poetry.
ヘンゼルとグレーテルの島 is an award-recognized work that shows the qualities of 水野るり子's writing and thought.
GIGI by 井坂洋子 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.
GIGI is an important 詩集 for understanding 井坂洋子's literary world.
卵宇宙水晶宮博物誌 by 高柳誠 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.
卵宇宙水晶宮博物誌 is an important 詩集 for understanding 高柳誠's literary world.
狂泉物語 is a work by 小松弘愛 associated with the 1981 cycle of H氏賞. In its award context, it was recognized for its distinctive subject matter, form, or contribution to contemporary literary and artistic expression.
A work by 小松弘愛 recognized in the context of H氏賞.
ふ is a work by ねじめ正一 associated with the 1981 cycle of H氏賞. In its award context, it was recognized for its distinctive subject matter, form, or contribution to contemporary literary and artistic expression.
A work by ねじめ正一 recognized in the context of H氏賞.
Makoto Isshiki's third poetry collection, unfolding an inward-moving poetic world through images of body, letters, faces, wounds, dreams, and labyrinths.
Ordinary words twist into passages descending toward the deeper places of the mind.
肴 is an award-recognized work by 松下育男. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
肴 conveys 松下育男's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
家 is an award-recognized work by 大野新. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
家 conveys 大野新's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
Small Voyage 26 is Kiyomi Konagaya's second poetry collection. It builds bodily sensation and small movements of everyday life into language marked by lightness and odd tension.
It turns bodily shifts and everyday dislocation into a sequence of small voyages.
水駅 is a 詩集 by 荒川洋治. Recognized by the prize, it presents the author's literary voice within its period.
A 詩集 recognized in the context of H氏賞受賞作.
Mizugameza no Mizu is a poetry collection whose title joins the feel of water with a cosmic sense of distance. It became a representative early work by Tetsuo Shimizu and was recognized by the H Prize.
水甕座の水 presents 清水哲男's work as an award-recognized title.
カナンまで is a poetry collection by 郷原宏. It is recognized as a winning work of the H氏賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
カナンまで offers an entry point into 郷原宏's literary expression through the context of the H氏賞.
天鼓 is a poetry collection by 一丸章. It is recognized as a winning work of the H氏賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
天鼓 offers an entry point into 一丸章's literary expression through the context of the H氏賞.
A poetry collection by Tetsuzo Tsuburai. Centered on the image of an isolated island, the poems layer separation, memory, and inner landscape with quiet tension.
The island appears not as a distant place but as an inner terrain opening within language.
聖なる淫者の季節 is a work by 白石かずこ; a book edition was published by 思潮社 in 刊行年不詳.
聖なる淫者の季節 stands in 白石かずこ's award record.
みやらび is a work by 知念栄喜 recognized by the h-shi-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.
みやらび, a work recognized by the h-shi-award.
This poetry collection draws from everyday language to reveal a working woman's bodily sense, family life, and unease toward society. Its plain diction carries a sharp critical force.
Words from kitchens and workplaces become the strength that supports a life.
A poetry collection that contemplates polar nature and human solitude. Observation, silence, and bodily sensation create tension across its white expanse.
Polar silence brings the solitude within human beings into sharper relief.
罐製同棲又は陥穽への逃亡 is a 詩 by 鈴木志郎康. It is presented here as a work shaped by 現代詩, 都市, 実験.
罐製同棲又は陥穽への逃亡 preserves 鈴木志郎康's voice in the form of 詩.
動物哀歌 is a 詩集 by 村上昭夫. It is presented here as a work shaped by 詩, 動物, 哀しみ.
動物哀歌 preserves 村上昭夫's voice in the form of 詩集.
A poetry collection set in the late-night city, portraying solitude, memory, and youthful sensitivity. Through the stillness of the dark hours, it evokes the bodily feel of living in a postwar metropolis.
東京午前三時 is a work in which a poetry collection set in the late-night city, portraying solitude, memory, and youthful sensitivity.
A poetry collection that approaches the changing seasons through both thought and sensation. More than landscape description, it traces cycles of time and shifts in human consciousness.
季節についての試論 is a work in which a poetry collection that approaches the changing seasons through both thought and sensation.
Analysis of Fire is recorded as a poetry collection by Mitsuhiro Sawamura and as an H Prize-winning work. Public online bibliographic information is limited, but the title suggests a collection organized around images of fire and an analytic poetic voice.
A prize-winning poetry collection from the 1960s with limited public bibliographic information.
Sancho Panza's Return is a major postwar poetry collection in which Yoshiro Ishihara writes against silence from the background of Siberian internment and the experience of losing language. Rather than reducing extremity to testimony, the poems make the very impossibility of speech their tension.
A landmark collection that opens a deep current in postwar poetry from between internment experience and silence.
Place is Rumiko Kora's second poetry collection, focusing on unstable moments when object and self, reality and image, seem to exchange positions. Rather than direct emotional expression, the collection centers on a rigorous movement of language that questions modes of existence.
A poetry collection that confronts modern poetry from the point where the boundary between object and self begins to waver.
A poetry collection by Kasei Kazayama. Set against life rooted in land and settlement, it was valued for a dense affirmation of life.
A collection that quietly and intensely praises human life in one corner of the earth.
Itsuko Ishikawa's second poetry collection. With words carrying anger and sorrow, it looks toward social wounds and abandoned people, marking her starting point as a socially engaged poet facing postwar reality.
It overlays the presence of wolves with the voices of 'us,' inscribing the wounds of postwar society into poetry.
Kio Kuroda's first poetry collection. It engraves postwar anxiety, resistance, and political tension through the kinetic word guerrilla. Anger directed at society and pain inside the self intersect sharply.
From within anxiety, the poems strike like guerrilla action at the border between society and the self.
Minoru Yoshioka's poetry collection tightly combines religious imagery, bodily sensation, and uncanny fantasy. Though issued in a limited edition, it is read as an important collection showing the avant-garde development of postwar poetry.
The image of monks opens a dark poetic space of body and fantasy.
返礼 is a work by 富岡多恵子. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.
A prize-winning work by 富岡多恵子.
野にかかる虹 is a work by 井上俊夫. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.
A prize-winning work by 井上俊夫.
飢渇 is a poetry by 金井直. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.
飢渇 remains associated with 金井直's award-winning career.
けものみち is a poetry collection by 鳥見迅彦 that was recognized by the H氏賞. Available public sources mainly make it possible to trace its publication form and later inclusion in collections.
鳥見迅彦's けものみち remains traceable today through its award history.
Hitori no Onna ni is Saburo Kuroda's first poetry collection, using an address to one woman to render solitude, love, and the felt reality of daily life in plain language. Its restrained, everyday diction connects private feeling with the atmosphere of postwar society.
A poetry collection that quietly draws postwar feeling from an address to one woman.
Button ni Tsuite is a poetry collection by Katsumi Sakurai that received the fourth H Prize in the postwar poetry scene. Through attention to familiar objects, it reveals the poet's effort to draw out feelings and thought hidden in everyday life.
A poetry collection that excavates postwar life and poetic feeling through close attention to familiar things.
Toshi Genso is a poetry collection by Michio Kanbayashi that looks at the loss of humanity and existential unease hidden in postwar urban life. Social awareness and inner struggle overlap as the city is portrayed between fantasy and reality.
A postwar poetry collection that engraves urban anxiety and human loss as images of fantasy.
Miyoshi Nagashima's "Black Fruit" is a poetry collection that condenses postwar memory and wartime experience. It expresses bodily pain, thoughts of the dead, and an urgent wish for peace through heavy images like dark fruit.
This second H Prize-winning collection looks at the wounds of war from deep within body and memory.
断層 is a work by 殿内芳樹 recognized by the H氏賞 in 1951. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.
断層 is a work by 殿内芳樹 recorded in the history of the H氏賞.