Ishikawa Takuboku Award
いしかわたくぼくしょう
Open call comprehensive literary rookie award for tanka poets, haiku poets, poets, and essayists
- Established
- 2008
- Organizer
- Hokumeisha
- Category
- Literature and General Literary Arts
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
Established by Hokumeisha with the aim of "spotlighting writers who sincerely engage in literature, named after the genius writer Ishikawa Takuboku who lived in poverty and died young." The 1st and 2nd editions were open calls soliciting entries in each category, with category-specific selections conducted by judges. Hosting ended after the 2nd edition. The essay category was newly established from the 2nd edition.
Prize
- Main Prize
- 100,000 yen prize money per category and certificate
- Cash Prize
- 100,000 JPY
Related Awards
- Kadokawa Tanka Award
- Kadan Award
- Tanka Kenkyū Newcomer Award
- Shiba Bukimono Haiku Newcomer Award
- Kadokawa Haiku Award
- Haiku Kenkyū Award
- Haidan Award
Official Resources
https://www.hokumei.co.jp/Past Winners
飲食（おんじき）は、堀田季何による短歌作品として受賞した作品です。短い形式のなかで、日常の感覚や風景の変化を端正にすくい上げています。
飲食（おんじき）という題に沿って、日常と心象の交わる瞬間をとらえます。
鳥は、藤原明子による短歌作品として受賞した作品です。短い形式のなかで、日常の感覚や風景の変化を端正にすくい上げています。
鳥という題に沿って、日常と心象の交わる瞬間をとらえます。
自由な木は、立花藏による短歌作品として受賞した作品です。短い形式のなかで、日常の感覚や風景の変化を端正にすくい上げています。
自由な木という題に沿って、日常と心象の交わる瞬間をとらえます。
夕焼けは、河野昌子による短歌作品として受賞した作品です。短い形式のなかで、日常の感覚や風景の変化を端正にすくい上げています。
夕焼けという題に沿って、日常と心象の交わる瞬間をとらえます。
This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.
A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.
Beyond the Bridge is a thirty-tanka sequence by Norie Utazaki. Centered on the image of crossing a bridge, it depicts a lover's relationship, bodily sensation, and an urgent desire to move beyond the past.
A tanka sequence that layers love, the body, and a wish to move beyond the past onto the image of crossing a bridge.
Wakana Muto's Hanabi is not recorded among the official winning works of the Ishikawa Takuboku Award's tanka division. The 2008 tanka winner was Koe Utazaki's Hashi o Koete, so this entry is treated as outside the award recipients.
Kobayashi Naho's Koushi was not a winning work of the 2008 Ishikawa Takuboku Award for tanka. The official record lists only Kokei Utazaki's Hashi o Koete.
Calf was not a recipient of the first Ishikawa Takuboku Award in the tanka category. The official record lists only Norie Utazaki's Beyond the Bridge as the winning work for that year.
Ｏ脚の膝 by Ai Imahashi is known as a 石川啄木賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
Ｏ脚の膝 is an award-recognized work by Ai Imahashi.