Japanese Literary Awards

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Hoshino Tatsuko Newcomer Award

Edition 6 (2018)

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Winners

2 people
小山玄黙 こやま げんもく award

A fifty-haiku sequence by Koyama Genmoku that won the Tatsuko Hoshino Newcomer Prize. Prompted by his father's overseas posting, it turns memories of family life, the threshold of living alone, and gratitude for being raised into haiku.

Memories of family and the time of becoming alone overlap like cloud forms.

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古川朋子 ふるかわ ともこ award

A fifty-haiku sequence by Furukawa Tomoko that won the Tatsuko Hoshino Newcomer Prize. Based on what she has seen, heard, and experienced, it quietly gathers the feeling of living in a familiar town and being herself there.

Time in a familiar town lights up a fine sensation like lower eyelashes.

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