Kadan Award かだんしょう
Edition 28 (2017)
Winners
2 peopleAn award-winning tanka sequence from the twenty-eighth Kadan Award. Award lists and library award bibliographies confirm it as a work published in a tanka magazine, but no standalone book or poetry collection could be confirmed.
An award-winning sequence published in a tanka magazine, with no confirmed standalone book publication.
"Kaze ni Fukuramu Chizu" is a tanka sequence by Yoritsuna Sasaki that won the 28th Kadan Award. Built around images of maps and wind that suggest movement, it can be read as a work in which the poet remeasures his place within contemporary landscapes while carrying family and regional memory.
Like a map swelling in the wind, the sequence lets place and memory rise within each tanka.