Banka is a twenty-haiku sequence by Mion Suzuno. Through scenes of spring outings, graduation, green plums, rose gardens, and winter flurries, it captures seasonal movement and quiet everyday moments with a young sensibility.

A sequence of twenty haiku revealing quiet scenes at the edges of the seasons.

Hanabira no You ni is a runner-up work by Gai Otsuka in the Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Prize. As a young poet's sequence from the third competition, it is noted for sharply catching momentary changes such as meteors and wind.

A haiku sequence that catches fleeting tremors with petal-like lightness and sharpness.

Yamanazuki is an Encouragement Prize work by Ryoichi Nukui in the third Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Prize. The cited poems involve brightness, the moon, and seasonal feeling, quietly drawing out the atmosphere of places where people are present.

A concise haiku sequence depicting human presence and seasonal atmosphere.

Miyukibare is an Encouragement Prize work by Ayumi Kobayashi in the third Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Prize. Through images such as blank space, grilled rice cakes, the Kanto Plain, and clear weather after deep snow, it places domestic texture and expansive scenery inside short poems.

Domestic texture and broad scenery cross like clear weather after deep snow.