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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in 1986 via a public call on Fujimi Shobo's monthly magazine 'Haiku Kenkyu'; a newcomer haiku award selected from 50 unpublished haiku (prize money 300,000 yen).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.

Haiku awardsOpen newcomer awards
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 Up to 50 unpublished haiku were eligible for judging, with a prize of 300,000 yen.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

Entry selection
Judges
Announcement Announced in the monthly magazine 'Haiku Kenkyu'

Criteria

  • Must be unpublished haiku
  • Up to 50 haiku entries

Past Winners

Saito Asahiko さいとう あさひこ award

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.

haikuobservationimagination
Izumi Tainaka たいなか いずみ award

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.

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Katsuhiro Takayanagi たかやなぎ かつひろ award

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.

haikuyouthnaturebodily perception
有澤榠樝 ありさわ りんじゅ award

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.

haikucriticismpoetry
藤村真理 ふじむら まり award

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.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturerelationships
Tomoya Tokita ときた ともや award

“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.

sorrowrecoveryquietaftertonehaiku
山根真矢 やまね まや award

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.

331 pages
award-recognized workliterary awardpublished book
鈴木厚子 すずき あつこ award

"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.

225 pages
haiku workaward-winning work
岩永佐保 いわなが さほ award

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.

haikuliving thingsnaturelife
太田土男 おおた つちお award

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.

俳句作品俳句研究賞contemporary literature
猪口節子 いのくち せつこ award

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.

work overview
Ryosuke Nonaka のなか りょうすけ award

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.

poetrymemorylandscaperesonant language
大島雄作 おおしま ゆうさく award

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.

award-winning work1994literature
Hajime Nishio にしお はじめ award

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.

award-winning workauthorial voiceliterary expression
日美清史 ひみ せいし award

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.

literary stylememoryplace
高橋富里 たかはし ともり award

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.

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Yumiko Katayama かたやま ゆみこ award

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.

haikuseason wordsdaily lifeafterglow
福島勲 ふくしま いさお award

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.

haikupoetryseasonal awareness
牧辰夫 まき たつお 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.

haikupoetryseasonal awareness
河合照子 かわい てるこ 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.

prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
山口都茂女 やまぐち ともめ award

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.

prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
佐藤和枝 さとう かずえ award

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.

177 pages
詩歌日常季節内面
角免栄児 かくめん えいじ award

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.

文学人物時代表現
北野平八 きたの へいはち award

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.

haikuwinterbodily sensationagingdaily surroundings
Tetsurō Motomiya もとみや てつろう award

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.

haikusnow countrynaturedaily lifeseasons