Kadan Award かだんしょう
Edition 17 (2006)
Tanka
Winners
2 peopleWater Force is a tanka collection by Yasuko Komeda. Centering on the touch and movement of water, it captures details of daily life, bodily sensation, and the passage of time through tanka.
A tanka collection that uses the feel of water to sing of life and the movement of body and mind.
215 pages
tankawaterdaily lifebodily sensation
Calling the Dusk is a tanka work by Tomoko Higuchi. Using dusk as a time of transition, it can be positioned as poetry about changing light, memory, and feelings that rise at the edge of daily life.
A tanka work that layers daily life and memory in the hour of dusk.
tankaduskmemorydaily life