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.
- 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
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary screening | Central executive members of the Japan Tanka Poets Club, local block officers, past winners, honorary members | — | — |
| Final selection | 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
『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.
『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.
A tanka collection that carries a strong sense of place and bodily perception.
Each verse brings the outline of daily life into focus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
A tanka collection that renders fleeting scenes in condensed poetic language.
A tanka collection that renders fleeting scenes in condensed poetic language.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.