Chakukan (Landfall) is a set of twenty haiku by Takumi Sasaki that won the 15th Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Prize in 2023. Its images of a withered field, an amber insect, soap bubbles, and peaches move between brightness and the world after death.

An award-winning sequence of twenty haiku where bright seasonal imagery meets a deep sensibility.

Yakkyou is a haiku work by Kotane Masayama that received the runner-up prize at the fifteenth Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. Kiyose City's official winners list records the poet and title among the 2023 recipients.

A winter bee rolls over like a spent cartridge.

Ereutheria is a twenty-haiku sequence by Yo Tanaka that received a runner-up prize at the fifteenth Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. Including the title poem, the sequence pairs everyday textures with the resonance of a word meaning freedom.

Autumn eggplants shine with ereutheria.

Ippon is a sequence of twenty haiku by Kurisu Tsujimura, selected for the Oyama Masayoshi Memorial Encouragement Award at the 15th Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Award. Its scenes of yielding the nighttime city to amorous cats and faces gathered over oden bring intimacy and shadow to everyday urban life.

I yield this city's night to amorous cats.

Kasabuta (Scab) is a sequence of twenty haiku by Yohira Saito that received the Kadokawa Haiku Editor-in-Chief Prize at the fifteenth Ishida Hakyo Newcomer Prize. Using wakame seaweed, blue tarpaulins, and the winter wind known as mogaribue, it layers colloquial lightness and unease over an urban landscape.

Blue tarpaulins are the city's scabs: a winter wind whistles through.