Haiku Research Prize
はいくけんきゅうしょう
Launched in 1986 via a public call on Fujimi Shobo's monthly magazine 'Haiku Kenkyu'; a newcomer haiku award selected from 50 unpublished haiku (prize money 300,000 yen). Suspended after the 21st edition in 2006.
- Established
- 1986
- Organizer
- Fujimi Shobo
- Category
- Haiku and Haikai
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Haiku Research Prize is a publicly solicited newcomer haiku award. Established in 1986. Submissions were solicited through Fujimi Shobo's monthly magazine 'Haiku Kenkyu,' with winning works announced in the same magazine. Up to 50 unpublished haiku were eligible for judging, with a prize of 300,000 yen. Suspended after the 21st edition in 2006 due to the magazine's discontinuation.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Prize money 300,000 yen
- Cash Prize
- 300,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry selection | — | Announced in the monthly magazine 'Haiku Kenkyu' |
Criteria
- Must be unpublished haiku
- Up to 50 haiku entries
Past Winners
An award-winning haiku sequence by Asahiko Saito. Through images such as cameras and white peonies, it lightly crosses the boundary between observation and imagination.
Even the faint tremor of a white peony is reflected in the poem.
Hotaru Doji is the work for which Izumi Tainaka received the twentieth Haiku Kenkyu Award. The title and author are confirmed in award listings, but no book, paperback, or haiku collection containing the work was confirmed.
A Haiku Kenkyu Award-winning work with no confirmed book edition.
A haiku collection animated by a young sensibility. It captures nature and bodily perception vividly and carries the momentum of early work.
A new breath reconnects seasonal language with perception.
五十一 by 有澤榠樝 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
五十一 by 有澤榠樝 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
からり by 藤村真理 is known as a 俳句研究賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
からり is an award-recognized work by 藤村真理.
“After Sorrow” is a haiku work in which Tomoya Tobita receives the emotional tremors left after loss or sadness in the short breath of haiku. As the title suggests, it looks not at grief itself but at the quiet and faint recovery that follows.
It watches the quiet left after sorrow through the brief form of haiku.
少年の時間 is a work by 山根真矢. It was recognized by 俳句研究賞.
少年の時間, recognized by 俳句研究賞.
"鹿笛" is a haiku work by 鈴木厚子. Its publication as a book is confirmed, and it is treated as the award-winning work.
"鹿笛" is recognized as a haiku work.
A haiku collection that catches the radiance of living things across the seasons, linking plants, animals, and human life with vivid sensitivity.
A haiku collection that catches the radiance of living things across the seasons, linking plants, animals, and human life with vivid sensitivity.
牛守 is a 俳句作品 by 太田土男 and was recognized by the 俳句研究賞.
The title 牛守 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.
A haiku collection with the tension and resonance suggested by the noh flute.
A haiku collection with the tension and resonance suggested by the noh flute.
風の木 is a work of poetry or haiku built around resonance, silence, and close observation. It condenses memory, place, and everyday perception into compact language.
A work whose brief language leaves the movement of season and memory behind.
青年 is a work by 大島雄作. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of haiku-kenkyu-sho; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.
青年 reflects the qualities in 大島雄作's writing that drew award attention.
三寒四温 is an award-winning work by 西尾一. It represents the author’s concerns and style within the context of the prize category.
三寒四温 presents the literary world of 西尾一.
Coolness by 日美清史 is a Japanese haiku work. 涼しさの感覚を軸に、季節の移り変わりと心身の静けさをとらえる俳句作品。余白を生かした表現が、夏から秋へ向かう空気を感じさせる。
Coolness distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.
Tenji Nikki is a haiku work by Tomori Takahashi. Known as a Haiku Kenkyu Prize winner, its title strongly links tactile perception with the passage of everyday time.
A work that draws the distance between touch and writing into the daily practice of haiku.
A haiku work by Yumiko Katayama that catches brief moments of daily life in poised language and leaves a clear afterimage.
A single night condenses the season and the trembling of the heart.
閻魔の手形 is an award-winning work by 福島勲. 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.
閻魔の手形 invites readers to approach it through the expressive force that drew attention at the time of the award.
机辺 is an award-winning work by 牧辰夫. 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.
机辺 invites readers to approach it through the expressive force that drew attention at the time of the award.
日向 is a work by 河合照子 selected in the 1988 cycle of 俳句研究賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
日向 by 河合照子, recognized by 俳句研究賞.
面打 is a work by 山口都茂女 selected in the 1988 cycle of 俳句研究賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
面打 by 山口都茂女, recognized by 俳句研究賞.
龍の玉 is a 句集 by 佐藤和枝. 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.
龍の玉 condenses the qualities of 佐藤和枝's work in the form of a 句集.
白南風 is a 俳句作品 by 角免栄児. 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.
白南風 condenses the qualities of 角免栄児's work in the form of a 俳句作品.
A haiku collection by Heihachi Kitano that uses the bodily sensation of winter as a point of entry, capturing small nearby phenomena and hints of aging in haiku's brief breath.
A haiku collection that receives the chill and bodily sensations of daily life in brief language.
A haiku collection by Tetsuro Motomiya that writes of snow country, layering daily life, silence, and seasonal sound within a severe natural climate.
A haiku collection that sings broadly of life and nature in snow country.