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Kadan Award かだんしょう

Edition 28 (2017)

Tanka

Winners

2 people
大平千賀 おおひら ちか award

An 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.

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Sasaki Yoritsuna ささき よりつな award

"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.

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