Haijin Kyokai Hyoron Prize はいじんきょうかいひょうろんしょう
Edition 16 (2001)
Winners
2 peopleSoviet Internment Haiku: People and Works links the experience of Siberian internment with haiku expression, reading poems written under extreme conditions as literary works. Through the compressed form of haiku, it illuminates war, captivity, and the transmission of memory.
A critical study that rereads memories of internment through voices preserved in haiku.
Haiku Poet Atsushi Azumi is a critical biography in which Asako Nishijima traces Azumi’s life, work, and place in the haiku world from the perspective of a poet connected to his lineage. With a chronology, it portrays both the man and his achievement within Showa-era haiku.
A critical biography tracing Atsushi Azumi’s haiku and character through lineage, memory, and documents.