Kei Iwata's "Mada Yuki ni" won the newcomer prize at the Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. Selected as a group of unpublished haiku by a young poet, it already shows the bodily sensitivity and seasonal precision later associated with his first collection, Hada.

An award-winning haiku sequence in which a young poet's sensibility rises through the faint presence of snow.

Hikaru Watanabe's "Urautsuri" received the runner-up prize at the Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. Its title suggests bleed-through, trace, and afterimage, and the sequence was recognized as the work of an emerging haiku poet.

A haiku work that reads atmosphere and blank space like an image bleeding through paper.

Taiga Kusakabe's "Getsumen" received the Oyama Masayuki Memorial Encouragement Prize at the Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. With the distant, dry image of the lunar surface, it is recorded as a work that broadens the range of young haiku expression.

Carrying the distance of the lunar surface, it brings a wide space into the compact haiku form.