Ame no Yokan (Premonition of Rain) is a fifty-haiku sequence by Soshi Suzuki that won the 11th Hoshino Tatsuko Newcomer Award. Suzuki describes it as a work born from the natural environment of Hokkaido after moving to Asahikawa.

Soshi Suzuki's prize-winning fifty-haiku sequence, shaped by the natural environment of Hokkaido.

Shitagau is Chika Chino's fifty-haiku sequence that received the 11th Tatsuko Hoshino Newcomer Award. After stepping away from writing for a time following childbirth, Chino rediscovered nature during walks with her young child and shaped those experiences into poems.

An award-winning sequence of fifty haiku shaped by encounters with nature on walks with a child.