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Haijin Kyokai Hyoron Prize はいじんきょうかいひょうろんしょう

Edition 34 (2019)

HaikuLiterary criticism

Winners

1 people
角谷昌子 かくたに まさこ award

Haiku no Suimyaku o Motomete is a critical collection that follows the lives and works of haiku poets who died during the Heisei era, considering how haiku became a source of light within difficult lives. It reads poets such as Ryuta Iida, Haruko Iijima, and Tota Kaneko through the relation between work and life.

A critical collection that seeks the source of haiku's force through the works and lives of poets who died in the Heisei era.

376 pages
haiku criticismHeisei-era haikupoet profilesliterary interpretationlife and work