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Japan Tanka Poets Club Award

にほんかじんくらぶしょう

An award sponsored by the Japan Tanka Poets Club targeting tanka collections by mid-career and veteran poets.

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Established
1974
Organizer
Japan Tanka Poets Club
Category
Tanka
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around May
Status
Active

Description

The Japan Tanka Poets Club Award is sponsored by the Japan Tanka Poets Club, which has the oldest history and largest scale in Japan, and targets tanka collections by mid-career and veteran poets. It originated from the Japan Tanka Poets Club Recommended Tanka Collections established in 1955 and was renamed to its current name in 1974. It selects from individual single-authored tanka collections published in the previous year.

Prize

Main Prize
Certificate and prize money of 100,000 yen (2024)
Cash Prize
100,000 JPY

Selection

Selection Process

Preliminary screening
Judges Central executive members of the Japan Tanka Poets Club, local block officers, past winners, honorary members
Final selection
Judges Selection committee (members nominated by central executives and the central executive board)

Related Awards

  • Japan Tanka Poets Club Grand Prize
  • Japan Tanka Poets Club Newcomer Award
  • Japan Tanka Poets Club Criticism Award

Official Resources

https://www.nihonkajinclub.com/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%AD%8C%E4%BA%BA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%BB%E3%81%AA%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%AD%8C%E4%BA%BA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E5%90%84%E8%B3%9E/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%AD%8C%E4%BA%BA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E8%B3%9E%E6%AD%B4%E4%BB%A3%E5%8F%97%E8%B3%9E%E8%80%85/

Past Winners

黒木三千代 くろき みちよ award
Yoshihiro Hagioka はぎおか よしひろ award
久保田登 award

『手形足形』は久保田登の歌集。単行本としては確認できるが、識別子を確証できなかったため null とした。

Tegata Ashigata is a tanka collection by Noboru Kubota. A standalone book edition is confirmed, but bibliographic identifiers could not be verified here, so they remain null.

歌集短歌日常

『ベイビーズ・ブレス』は、古谷智子の感受性を生かした歌集で、日常の呼吸や細やかな気配をすくい上げる。

Baby’s Breath is a tanka collection by Tomoko Furuya that picks up the breath of daily life and its minute sensations.

歌集短歌日常感受性
Reiko Oguchi award

近作。個と共同体、解放をめぐる詠作を含む。

自由

自由共同体

A tanka collection that carries a strong sense of place and bodily perception.

Each verse brings the outline of daily life into focus.

224 pages
tankaplacelyricismembodied sense

Kazuhiro Honda's tanka collection looks at Fukushima's soil and language, memory of the dead, and a life rooted in place. Carrying the climate of his home region, it layers singing the soil with the act of living.

Words born from Fukushima's soil cultivate the space between the living and the dead.

256 pages
tankaFukushimasoilhomethe deadmemory

Izumi Kasuga's fourth tanka collection takes its title from Gandhi's Salt March. Hearing the sound of things breaking down, it crystallizes solidarity, nonviolence, cinema, and everyday memory into tanka.

A tanka collection that searches for a salt-like glimmer of hope amid the sounds of an era coming apart.

184 pages
tankanonviolencesolidaritycinemamemoryhope
伊勢方信 award

Hoshin Ise's Piaf wa Utau is a tanka collection that received the Japan Tanka Poets Club Award. Carrying the musical resonance of Edith Piaf in its title, the collection entrusts voice, memory, and the shadows of life to the tanka form.

A tanka collection that turns the memory of a singing voice into poems and lets the shadows of life resonate.

180 pages
tankasinging voicememorylife

Tsuruko Kugata's tanka collection quietly observes what passes and what remains, set against memories of caring for and mourning her father as well as the life of literary circles and friendships.

A tanka collection that traces the time of a life through memories of the departed and the dampness of the season.

219 pages
tankaremembrancecaregivingfamilypoetry circle

駅程 is a 詩歌作品 work by 島田幸典 associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

駅程 by 島田幸典 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

award-winning workbibliographic verification詩歌作品
楠田立身 award

白雁 is a 歌集 by 楠田立身 associated with the award record. The entry checks public bibliographic sources, award documentation, and book-trade records to identify its publication status and reading context.

白雁 by 楠田立身 is a work whose publication status and outline can be traced through award records.

157 pages
award recordbibliographic verificationJapanese literature
Yuko Saeki award

流れ is a work by 佐伯裕子, recorded here as a 受賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.

A concise profile of 流れ by 佐伯裕子, including award and bibliographic context.

158 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
Yoko Saba さば ようこ award

Beyond Time is a Japanese literary work that explores memory, relationships, self-discovery. It presents its subject through a focused narrative or poetic frame shaped by the work's award context.

Beyond Time presents its award-winning themes in an accessible literary form.

202 pages
memoryrelationshipsself-discovery
中地俊夫 なかじ としお award

Toshio Nakaji's third tanka collection. It depicts family life, memories with a grandchild, and the changed sense of distance after the earthquake and nuclear accident, embedding a sharp social awareness in seemingly quiet scenes.

A tanka collection that quietly and deeply records family memory and social change.

248 pages
tankafamilymemoryGreat East Japan Earthquakesocial verse
中根誠 なかね まこと award

A tanka collection by Makoto Nakane. Set against the textures of Ibaraki landscapes and everyday life, it gathers poems shaped by the feeling of standing at a boundary and became the work recognized by the Japan Tanka Poets' Club Award.

From the crossing point of local memory and personal perception, these poems rise with quiet tension.

tankalocal memoryliminalitynature
Sumi Konno こんにの すみ award

かへり水 is a sequence of tanka or a tanka collection that catches details of ordinary life and shifts of feeling, bringing youthful perception and a critical gaze into a taut traditional form.

かへり水 is a prize-recognized work by 今野寿美.

tankaordinary lifefixed-form poetry
内田弘 うちだ ひろし award

街の音 is a sequence of tanka or a tanka collection that catches details of ordinary life and shifts of feeling, bringing youthful perception and a critical gaze into a taut traditional form.

街の音 is a prize-recognized work by 内田弘.

tankaordinary lifefixed-form poetry
Toshitaka Yasumori やすもり としたか award

百卒長 is a work by 安森敏隆. 『百卒長』は安森敏隆による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。

百卒長 presents 安森敏隆's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

文学賞受賞作
三井ゆき みつい ゆき award

天蓋天涯 is a work by 三井ゆき selected for the 日本歌人クラブ賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

天蓋天涯

167 pages
tankacriticismmodern literature
松坂弘 まつざか ひろし award

夕ぐれに涙を is a work by 松坂弘 selected for the 日本歌人クラブ賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

夕ぐれに涙を

236 pages
tankacriticismmodern literature
Fumihiro Oshima おおしま ふみひろ award

封印 is a 歌集 by 大島史洋. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.

A focused 歌集 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

family and memoryself-discoverysocial pressure
波汐國芳 はしお くによし award

マグマの歌 is a 歌集 by 波汐國芳. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.

A focused 歌集 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

family and memoryself-discoverysocial pressure
Yasurō Yamana やまな やすお award

A tanka collection by Yasuo Yamana. Under a title suggesting the hardness of winter and the body, it condenses seasons, aging, and the weight of daily life into tanka.

It lets the feel of winter sink to the bone and carves lived time into tanka.

tankawinterbodyaging
Seiji Itamiya いたみや せいじ award

A tanka collection by Seiji Itamiya. Taking the cane as a title image, it looks through tanka at walking, aging, and the continuance of daily life.

A collection that sings walking and continuing to live through the tactile image of a cane.

tankaagingwalkingdaily life
Isshin Oshita おおした かずま award

Ashimoto is a tanka collection by Kazuma Oshita. It keeps its gaze on nearby life and immediate reality, inscribing everyday sensation into the tanka form.

A gaze fixed on immediate reality opens the shades of daily life within fixed form.

221 pages
tankaeveryday lifelived sensationfixed form
Osamu Mitsui みつい おさむ award

A tanka collection set against island landscapes and the passage of time. The traces left by wind and sea are tied to human memory, uncertainty, and an attentive gaze toward place.

風紋の島 is a work in which 三井修 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

231 pages
islandsnaturetanka
Takako Hidaka ひだか たかこ award

A tanka collection that catches everyday shadows and passing time with the delicacy of rain falling through trees. Beneath its quiet observations lies a sense of loss and renewal.

樹雨 is a work in which 日高堯子 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

265 pages
naturetimetanka
Masako Amemiya あめみや まさこ award

昼顔の譜 by 雨宮雅子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

昼顔の譜 by 雨宮雅子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

award-winning workcontemporary literature
Kazuhiro Nagata ながた かずひろ award

荒神 by Kazuhiro Nagata is known as a 日本歌人クラブ賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

荒神 is an award-recognized work by Kazuhiro Nagata.

264 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturerelationships
Tadashi Iwata いわた ただし award

和韻 is a work by 岩田正 recognized by the 日本歌人クラブ賞. It is introduced here as the prize-winning work itself, with the available publication data checked against Japanese bibliographic sources.

和韻 brought wider attention to 岩田正's writing through its prize recognition.

179 pages
Tanka collectionPrize-winning workModern Japanese literature
Ken Kasugai かすがい たけし award

白雨、友の書 is 作品 by 春日井建. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.

The work offers a way into 春日井建's literary expression.

award-recognized literature
土屋正夫 つちや まさお award

"鳴泉居" is a tanka work by 土屋正夫. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"鳴泉居" is recognized as a tanka work.

tankworkaward-winning work
Kiyohiro Tamai たまい きよひろ award

"清漣" is a tanka work by 玉井 清弘. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"清漣" is recognized as a tanka work.

tankworkaward-winning work
芝谷幸子 しばたに さちこ award

A tanka collection centered on mountain lights and a sense of celebration, singing of nature, prayer, and everyday time.

A tanka collection centered on mountain lights and a sense of celebration, singing of nature, prayer, and everyday time.

tankamountainsprayerdaily life
山本寛太 やまもと かんた award

A tanka collection that uses the image of wild rice at the water's edge to contemplate nature and human time.

A tanka collection that uses the image of wild rice at the water's edge to contemplate nature and human time.

tankawild ricewatersidenature
Seisuke Ishiguro いしぐろ せいすけ award

雪ふりいでぬ is a work by 石黒 清介 associated with the 日本歌人クラブ賞. It was recognized in a literary award context and is presented as a work centered on the concerns suggested by its title.

Recognized by the 日本歌人クラブ賞, 雪ふりいでぬ draws readers in through the impression created by its title.

193 pages
日本歌人クラブ賞雪ふりいでぬliterature
Hideaki Takamatsu たかまつ ひであき award

A tanka collection that renders fleeting scenes in condensed poetic language.

A tanka collection that renders fleeting scenes in condensed poetic language.

214 pages
work overview
Hashimoto Yoshinori はしもと よしのり award

無冠 is a prize-recognized work that draws readers through its central subject, characters, and the texture of its period or setting.

無冠 carries the distinctive qualities that made it a prize-recognized work.

award-winning literaturehuman experiencesociety and time
Kyoko Ishikawa いしかわ きょうこ award

木犀の秋 by 石川恭子 is a work recognized by japan-tanka-poets-club-award. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.

An introduction to 木犀の秋 by 石川恭子 in its award context.

award-winning workliterary prize木犀の秋
御供平佶 おとも へいきち award

神流川 is a work of poetry by 御供平佶. It was honored by the 日本歌人クラブ賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 御供平佶's work.

a work of poetryaward-winning work
中野照子 なかの てるこ award

秘色の天 is a work of poetry by 中野照子. It was honored by the 日本歌人クラブ賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 中野照子's work.

172 pages
a work of poetryaward-winning work
星野丑三 ほしの うしぞう award

Saigetsu is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

Saigetsu is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

歳月自然老境
Rim Gwang-ung はやし みつお award

Mugeko is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

Mugeko is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

信仰老境短歌
只野幸雄 ただの ゆきお award

Tsuge no Hana is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

Tsuge no Hana is a Japanese tanka collection. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

花木季節短歌
倉地与年子 くらち よねこ award

Soshinran is a tanka collection by Yoneko Kurachi. Centered on the pure inner image suggested by the orchid in its title, it shapes daily feeling and seasonal change into disciplined tanka.

A clear inner image entrusted to the orchid's name gathers daily change into tanka.

198 pages
tankaseasonsinner imagenature
Rō Shiraishi しらいし あきら award

Winter Mountain is a tanka collection by Akira Shiraishi. Centered on the severe seasonal image of a mountain in winter, it expresses silence, solitude, and the presence of nature through condensed tanka language.

A tanka collection that turns the stillness and severity of winter mountains into inner landscape.

tankawintermountainssolitude
Chiyo Miyake みやけ ちよ award

冬のかまきり is a tanka work by 三宅千代. It uses the thirty-one-syllable form to connect personal feeling with the texture of daily life and the atmosphere of its time.

冬のかまきり is an important work for reading 三宅千代's expression in the context of 日本歌人クラブ賞.

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Fusao Shimizu しみず ふさお award

絑間抄 is a tanka work by 清水房雄. It uses the thirty-one-syllable form to connect personal feeling with the texture of daily life and the atmosphere of its time.

絑間抄 is an important work for reading 清水房雄's expression in the context of 日本歌人クラブ賞.

daily feelinglyricismtanka
坂田信雄 さかた のぶお award

Under a title suggesting cold severity, this tanka collection sings of nature, aging, and shades of daily life. Its restrained language carries a taut sense of season and mind.

Within coldness, a thin light of life and mind rises.

228 pages
tankanatureaging
伊藤雅子 いとう まさこ award

With a title that evokes a plant name, this tanka collection gently sings details of nature and daily life. It receives the light and shade of ordinary time in a quiet voice.

With the softness of a plant's name, it sings the light and shade of days.

174 pages
tankanaturedaily life
須藤若江 すどう わかえ award

忍冬文 is a work by 須藤若江 selected in the 1988 cycle of 日本歌人クラブ賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

忍冬文 by 須藤若江, recognized by 日本歌人クラブ賞.

185 pages
prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
片山貞美 かたやま さだみ award

鳶鳴けり is a work by 片山貞美 selected in the 1988 cycle of 日本歌人クラブ賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

鳶鳴けり by 片山貞美, recognized by 日本歌人クラブ賞.

prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
野北和義 のきた かずよし award

山鶏 is a 歌集 by 野北和義. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.

山鶏 condenses the qualities of 野北和義's work in the form of a 歌集.

223 pages
詩歌日常季節内面
Tani Kunio たに くにお award

野の風韻 is a tanka collection by 谷邦夫. It can be read through the themes and narrative texture recognized at the time of the award, where people, places, and events come together.

野の風韻 links the scene suggested by its title with the author's concerns, retaining the shape of an award-winning work.

192 pages
tankanaturememoryeveryday life
Kaneko Yamamoto やまもと かねこ award

Tsukuyomi is a tanka collection by Kaneko Yamamoto. While its title evokes moonlight and the feeling of night, it renders daily experience, nature, and inner shades through the compressed language of tanka.

In a collection named for the moon, daily life and inner shadow quietly reside.

182 pages
tankamoonnatureinner lifepoetry collection
Kijima Yasuo くるしま やすお award

Thunder is a tanka collection by Yasuo Kurushima. Using the force and afterimage of thunder as a point of departure, it captures memory, travel, family, and the feeling of its era in tanka form.

Like the echo of thunder, memory and time flicker within the poems.

tankathundermemorynaturepoetry collection
野村清 のむら きよし award

皐月号 is a 歌集 recognized in 1985. The work is introduced here through bibliographic confirmation and a concise account of its subject and literary character.

A work whose shape can be traced through award records and bibliographic sources.

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君島夜詩 きみしま やし award

生きの足跡 is a 歌集 recognized in 1985. The work is introduced here through bibliographic confirmation and a concise account of its subject and literary character.

A work whose shape can be traced through award records and bibliographic sources.

award-winning work歌集1985
Yasufumi Suzuki すずき やすふみ award

A tanka collection by Yasufumi Suzuki. With old age in the title, it expresses daily sensations, memory, and life’s thresholds in compressed tanka language.

It observes the time of old age through the quiet breath of tanka.

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苔口萬寿子 こけぐち まんじゅこ award

A tanka collection by Manjuko Koguchi. In language suggested by the vivid flower of the title, it holds daily life, nature, and inner heat in tanka form.

Like the impression of a crimson flower, inner heat dwells in these tanka.

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Miyoji Ueda award

"遊行" is recorded as an award-winning work for japan-tanka-poets-club-award. This entry is prepared from the award record, while book identifiers are left blank because no independently confirmed public bibliographic record has been verified here.

遊行. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.

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"草の快楽" is recorded as an award-winning work for japan-tanka-poets-club-award. This entry is prepared from the award record, while book identifiers are left blank because no independently confirmed public bibliographic record has been verified here.

草の快楽. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.

award-winning workJapanese literaturebibliographic verification

紺紙金泥 by 蒔田さくら子 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

紺紙金泥 is one of the works associated with 蒔田さくら子's award record.

Fumio Okabe award

晩冬 by 岡部文夫 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

晩冬 is one of the works associated with 岡部文夫's award record.

植木正三 award

Kusachi is a tanka collection grounded in Shozo Ueki's realist poetics. It gathers poems on familiar nature, daily life, aging, and the feeling of time, allowing the tension of the self to emerge beneath plain observation.

A tanka collection that draws out the texture of daily life and time from a gaze standing close to grasses and flowers.

225 pages
tankarealismnatureagingdaily life

Kachuren is a tanka collection by Makiko Kasuga. Layering sensory images of trees, flowers, water, and light, its poems bring together intensity and stillness to express heat and purification at the core of life.

A tanka collection that holds intensity and clarity like a lotus blooming in fire.

118 pages
tankaflowerslightlifeMizugame
No winner
鈴木英夫 award

忍冬文 is an award-recognized work by 鈴木英夫. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.

忍冬文 conveys 鈴木英夫's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.

poetrylanguagemodernity

This tanka collection by Shintaro Kotani draws on Araragi-style realism and postwar introspection to sing of faith, memory, and time moving toward age. Quiet language carries the deep silence of a poet shaped by wartime experience.

In quiet tanka language, memory, faith, and postwar time overlap.

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阿部正路 award

A tanka collection by Masamichi Abe. It entrusts seasonal feeling and inner movement to fixed-form tanka, taking the image of birds taking flight as a central tone.

The sense of birds taking flight overlaps with changes in season and mind.

173 pages
tankapoetry collectionseasonslyricism
三浦武 award

A tanka collection by Takeshi Miura. Under a title that evokes Tokyo's waterways and lived memory, it inscribes urban scenery and personal feeling into the tanka form.

In the river's name, urban time overlaps with private lyricism.

tankapoetry collectioncityriver
鐸静枝 award

Ryumon is a tanka work by Shizue Toku. Like ripples spreading over water, it can be read as a collection that sets shifts of feeling and memory into fixed form.

A quiet inscription of emotional ripples within fixed poetic form.

tankamemoryfeelingfixed form

Icchokushin is a tanka work by Iwao Okayama. Centered on the straightforward spirit suggested by its title, it condenses life and conviction into fixed poetic language.

A tanka work that entrusts a directness of heart to fixed form.

tankaconvictiondaily lifespiritual resolve
Ei Taya award

水晶の座 is a tanka collection by 田谷鋭. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本歌人クラブ賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.

水晶の座 offers an entry point into 田谷鋭's literary expression through the context of the 日本歌人クラブ賞.

719 pages
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忘暦集 is a tanka collection by 吉田松四郎. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本歌人クラブ賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.

忘暦集 offers an entry point into 吉田松四郎's literary expression through the context of the 日本歌人クラブ賞.

254 pages
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