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.