Kadokawa Haiku Prize
かどかわはいくしょう
Open submission haiku newcomer award sponsored by the comprehensive haiku magazine "Haiku."
- Established
- 1955
- Organizer
- Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation
- Category
- Haiku and Haikai
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Application Deadline
- around May
- Announcement Period
- around November
- Status
- Active
Description
Established in 1955, it selects from 50 unpublished haiku. It is a gateway for rising stars in the haiku world, often called the Akutagawa Prize of haiku.
Related Awards
- Kadokawa Tanka Prize
- Akutagawa Prize
Official Resources
https://www.kadokawa-zaidan.or.jp/kensyou/kadokawa_haiku/Past Winners
"優しき腹" is a 受賞 work from the Kadokawa Haiku Prize 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.
A 受賞 work from Kadokawa Haiku Prize 2021-1.
A haiku magazine feature containing the winning piece “Red Dream.”
A single verse on the page is recorded as the award-winning work.
A fifty-haiku sequence by Kirin Nishimura. It was published in the November 2019 issue of Haiku as a winner of the 65th Kadokawa Haiku Award, and no standalone book edition could be confirmed.
A fifty-haiku sequence recognized by the Kadokawa Haiku Award, a prize for fresh new voices in haiku.
A fifty-haiku sequence by Ryoichi Nukui. It was announced as a winner of the 65th Kadokawa Haiku Award and later included in his second haiku collection, Kin’iro. The work connects to his style of placing parenting and everyday discoveries within seasonal language.
The fifty-haiku sequence “Washi ni Asahi” became a representative work leading into the author’s collection Kin’iro.
Ushi no Shuka is the winning sequence of the 64th Kadokawa Haiku Award. It is confirmed as a group of haiku centered on cattle, daily life, and seasonal perception, but no standalone haiku collection or book publication was confirmed through Amazon Japan, NDL, or publisher pages.
An award-winning sequence that sings daily life with cattle in the season of high summer.
Hitono Katachi is the first haiku collection by Popona Tsukino, a poet based in New York. Including the work that won the 63rd Kadokawa Haiku Award, it brings bodily sensation, urban life, and seasonal change into sharp focus within the compact form of haiku.
This collection follows a body living in a distant city as it tests the outlines of season and self through haiku form.
遠き船 is a work by 松野苑子 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.
Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work 遠き船.
A fifty-haiku sequence published in the November 2015 issue of Haiku as the winner of the 61st Kadokawa Haiku Award. It is noted for drawing an emerging world from light and seasonal sensations without overexplaining everyday scenes.
A quietly observed sequence on light and changing landscapes, recognized by the Kadokawa Haiku Award.
エンドロール is a work by 柘植史子, 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 エンドロール by 柘植史子, including award and bibliographic context.
A Kadokawa Haiku Prize-winning sequence by Shimizu Ryoro. The fifty-haiku work is confirmed as appearing in Haiku magazine, but no standalone haiku collection under the same title could be verified.
Verified prize-work information is organized for bibliographic use.
A haiku collection by Takao Hirowatari, gathering works from 2009 to 2014, including poems after his Kadokawa Haiku Award recognition. Through varied materials, it carefully observes the brightness and contingency of life.
A haiku collection that patiently draws out the texture of life from diverse materials of daily experience.
Haiku on post-disaster Fukushima included in Togo Nagase's collection Hashioboro: Fukushima Notes. The poems mark loss, mourning, and the hope for the renewal of home in compressed language.
As if watching the trace of a bridge swept away, the poems record Fukushima after the disaster in haiku.
春雷 is a linked group of haiku that brings seasonal language into contact with a contemporary sensibility, compressing fleeting daily moments and inner movement into brief forms.
春雷 is a prize-recognized work by 望月周.
投函 is a linked group of haiku that brings seasonal language into contact with a contemporary sensibility, compressing fleeting daily moments and inner movement into brief forms.
投函 is a prize-recognized work by 山口優夢.
萵苣 is a work by 相子智恵. 『萵苣』は相子智恵による作品。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。
萵苣 presents 相子智恵's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.
'波' is a winning work of the 角川俳句賞 by 安倍真理子.
'波' is a winning work of the 角川俳句賞 by 安倍真理子.
春の猫 is a 句集 by 津川絵理子. 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 句集 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
The Sea Bream Flute is Emiko Chijiwa's first haiku collection. Grounded in sketching from life and realism, it captures nearby seasonal scenes with tense language and shows the sensitivity and honest observation of a young haiku poet.
A first haiku collection born from a gaze committed to realism and sketching from life.
Natsu ga Kuru is a prize-winning haiku sequence by Masako Hara. Public sources confirm it as a sequence published in Haiku magazine, and no standalone book publication could be confirmed.
A prize-winning sequence presenting the atmosphere of a season moving toward summer through haiku.
A haiku sequence titled after a highland railway line, condensing travel, place, and seasonal atmosphere. Through tracks, mountains, and shifting air, it evokes the feel of time in motion.
小海線 is a work in which 中閑泉 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.
色鳥 is a poetic work by 馬場龍吉. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.
The title 色鳥 conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.
百人力 is an award-recognized work by 加藤静夫. It uses the impression carried by its title as an entry point into the movement of people and the atmosphere around them.
百人力 presents the literary world of 加藤静夫 as an award-recognized work.
寒の水 is a work by 桑原立生 recognized by the 角川俳句賞. It is introduced here as the prize-winning work itself, with the available publication data checked against Japanese bibliographic sources.
寒の水 brought wider attention to 桑原立生's writing through its prize recognition.
父の故郷 is 作品 by 高畑浩平. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.
The work offers a way into 高畑浩平's literary expression.
"富士遠近" is a haiku work by 須藤常央. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.
"富士遠近" is recognized as a haiku work.
朗朗 is a work by 依光陽子 and a title recognized in the context of its literary award. It can be read as a work that develops its themes through the motives suggested by the title, the characters' actions, and the atmosphere around them.
朗朗 leaves readers with the central concerns for which the work was recognized.
早苗饗 is a work by 若井 新一 associated with the 角川俳句賞. 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 角川俳句賞, 早苗饗 draws readers in through the impression created by its title.
真中 is a work by 高千夏子 associated with the 角川俳句賞. 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 角川俳句賞, 真中 draws readers in through the impression created by its title.
A haiku work that begins from the image of fingers to condense sensation and world.
A haiku work that begins from the image of fingers to condense sensation and world.
雪安居 is a prize-recognized work that draws readers through its central subject, characters, and the texture of its period or setting.
雪安居 carries the distinctive qualities that made it a prize-recognized work.
雪曼陀羅 by 阿部静雄 is a work recognized by kadokawa-haiku-sho. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.
An introduction to 雪曼陀羅 by 阿部静雄 in its award context.
運河 by 早野和子 is a work recognized by kadokawa-haiku-sho. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.
An introduction to 運河 by 早野和子 in its award context.
B面の夏 by 黛まどか is a work recognized by kadokawa-haiku-sho. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.
An introduction to B面の夏 by 黛まどか in its award context.
手 is a work of poetry by 松本ヤチヨ. It was honored by the 角川俳句賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.
A useful entry point into 松本ヤチヨ's work.
Urasato is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
Urasato is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
Sankyo is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
Sankyo is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
Kanboku is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
Kanboku is a haiku sequence. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.
A fifty-haiku sequence by Noriko Yuzuki. As a Kadokawa Haiku Prize winner, it channels a sense of prayer, boundaries, and distance into the compressed form of haiku, as suggested by its tense title.
A place of prayer and a sense of separation resonate within the brief poetic form.
寒鯉 is a haiku work by 北村保. It condenses seasonal feeling and observed scenes into brief language that leaves time and resonance behind.
寒鯉 is an important work for reading 北村保's expression in the context of 角川俳句賞.
Kega no Ko is the haiku sequence by Yumi Iwata that received the thirty-fifth Kadokawa Haiku Prize. Beginning from a child's injured body and the surrounding atmosphere, it draws out unease and delicate sensitivity hidden in moments of everyday life.
A haiku sequence that looks at everyday unease and tenderness through the small event of a child's injury.
鶴居村 is a work by 鶴田玲子 selected in the 1988 cycle of 角川俳句賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
鶴居村 by 鶴田玲子, recognized by 角川俳句賞.
昆布刈村 is a haiku collection by 林佑子. It can be read through the themes and narrative texture recognized at the time of the award, where people, places, and events come together.
昆布刈村 links the scene suggested by its title with the author's concerns, retaining the shape of an award-winning work.
鵜の唄 is a haiku collection by 辻恵美子. It can be read through the themes and narrative texture recognized at the time of the award, where people, places, and events come together.
鵜の唄 links the scene suggested by its title with the author's concerns, retaining the shape of an award-winning work.
A haiku sequence that compresses the atmosphere of volcanic terrain and the roughness of geothermal landscapes into a brief form. The immense force of nature intersects sharply with human experience.
It captures the bodily sensation of standing in volcanic country through compact haiku language.
A haiku work that evokes northern nature and life, especially Hokkaido, through the impression of the color blue. Cool landscapes and time rooted in place overlap throughout the sequence.
It concentrates the blue quiet of northern land within a brief poetic form.
A haiku work set against the sound of the sea and coastal life, with a cadence suggestive of free-verse haiku. Waves, wind, solitude, and everyday sensation are joined in concise language.
The roar of the sea summons solitude and time lying deep within daily life.
海女の島 is a 俳句作品 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.
津軽雪譜 is a 俳句作品 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.
“春の雁” is a haiku work by 木内彰志. As a prize-winning work, it conveys the author's concerns and distinctive expression.
An entry point into 木内彰志's literary world through the prize-winning work “春の雁.”
“遊ぶ子の” is a haiku work by 大石悦子. As a prize-winning work, it conveys the author's concerns and distinctive expression.
An entry point into 大石悦子's literary world through the prize-winning work “遊ぶ子の.”
"鳥影" is recorded as an award-winning work for kadokawa-haiku-sho. 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.
鳥影. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.
"立春" is recorded as an award-winning work for kadokawa-haiku-sho. 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.
立春. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.
かささぎ by 稲富義明 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.
かささぎ is one of the works associated with 稲富義明's award record.
童子の夢 by 田中裕明 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.
童子の夢 is one of the works associated with 田中裕明's award record.
Natsugamo is a haiku work by Yoshiko Settsu, centered on the fifty poems presented as the Kadokawa Haiku Prize-winning sequence. It places small everyday thresholds and seasonal presences within concise phrasing, drawing out a quiet tension behind familiar scenes.
A haiku collection that illuminates seasonal presences and the thresholds of daily life through restrained language.
Henpen is a sequence of fifty haiku by Ayako Goto. It gathers fragments of scenery and traces of everyday presence, condensing emotional movement and subtle shadows into the short fixed form.
A haiku sequence that layers fragmentary scenes and holds everyday shadows in fixed form.
佐渡の冬 is a haiku work by 金子のぼる, condensing a sense of place and the passage of seasons into a small verbal space. Its prize recognition suggests an achievement in capturing everyday scenes and memories with precision while leaving room for the reader's imagination.
In the space around brief lines, place and season quietly come into view.
鮫角燈台 is a haiku work by 加藤憲曠, condensing a sense of place and the passage of seasons into a small verbal space. Its prize recognition suggests an achievement in capturing everyday scenes and memories with precision while leaving room for the reader's imagination.
In the space around brief lines, place and season quietly come into view.
This haiku collection by Hitori Oguma, with a title suggesting a forest adrift by the sea, overlays movements of nature and human perception. It sings quiet time through the presence of sea, wind, and plants.
Where the presences of sea and forest meet, a quiet haiku time emerges.
This haiku sequence by Teruyo Kodama takes the mountain villages around Mount Dando in Aichi as its subject, quietly singing rural life and seasonal presence. Rather than dramatic events, it foregrounds the depth of time rooted in place.
With a restrained haiku style, it observes the seasons and lives flowing through the villages of Mount Dando.
Michiaki Ito's first haiku collection. It foregrounds a sensibility rooted in Fukuoka, fresh lyricism conveyed through fruit and bodily perception, and a trust in fixed-form haiku.
In the fine fuzz of a white peach resting in the palm, youthful lyricism and devotion to form seem to pulse.
Hokusui Kiryoku is a haiku work by Noame Kuroki. Its title evokes travel through the northern borderlands, suggesting a poetic world condensed from landscape and movement.
Northern landscape and the feeling of travel held in the short breath of haiku.
Iga Zassho is a haiku work by Masakazu Miyata. It can be read as a work that places the memory of Iga and details of daily life into the compressed form of haiku.
A sequence of short poems singing the land and life of Iga.
酸か湯 is a haiku work by 米田一穂. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused voice and for the way it leaves a sense of people, place, and time with the reader.
酸か湯 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.
大和れんぞ is a haiku work by 民井とおる. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused voice and for the way it leaves a sense of people, place, and time with the reader.
大和れんぞ captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.
奥羽山系 is a haiku work by 山崎和賀流. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused voice and for the way it leaves a sense of people, place, and time with the reader.
奥羽山系 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.
A haiku collection by Eiko Suzuki. As the title Choju Giga suggests, it brings people, creatures, movement, and humor into the short breath of haiku, lightly animating the presence of its subjects.
The gestures of living things suddenly take on humor and shadow within the short poems.
杣の部落 is known as a work by 横溝養三.
杣の部落 stands in 横溝養三's award record.
虹仰ぐ is a work by 佐藤南山寺 recognized by the kadokawa-haiku-sho in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.
虹仰ぐ, a work recognized by the kadokawa-haiku-sho.
Tsuboya no Uta is the haiku sequence by Kyoko Henmi that received the fifteenth Kadokawa Haiku Prize. Its title evokes Okinawa's pottery district, and the work compresses a sense of place, the texture of vessels, and traces of everyday life into the brief breath of haiku.
A prize-winning sequence that lets the memory of vessels and place resonate in haiku's open space.
梶の花 is a 句集 by 山田みづえ. It is presented here as a work shaped by 俳句, 季節, 家族.
梶の花 preserves 山田みづえ's voice in the form of 句集.
This work is introduced as a literary piece shaped by its period, characters, and central conflict. It can be read for the way private feeling, social pressure, and memory are brought into tension.
A concise entry point into a work where personal feeling and social pressure meet.
This work is introduced as a literary piece shaped by its period, characters, and central conflict. It can be read for the way private feeling, social pressure, and memory are brought into tension.
A concise entry point into a work where personal feeling and social pressure meet.
A prize-winning haiku sequence by Wataru Emi. With a title drawn from an everyday garment, it gathers bodily sensation and the atmosphere of daily life into a restrained sequence of fifty haiku.
From the touch of a single sash, the senses of daily life and season quietly unfold.
A prize-winning haiku sequence by Eiji Yamaguchi. Its title evokes a person or place guarding old books, and the work can be read as capturing aged paper, memory, and quiet labor through the brief breath of haiku.
From the act of guarding the silence of old books, accumulated time begins to rise.
A haiku sequence by Toshiko Ouchi that won the Kadokawa Haiku Prize. It was recognized as an unpublished fifty-haiku sequence, and its title suggests illness and psychic disturbance while compressing tension beneath everyday life.
Behind the quiet surface of the poems lies a tension in which the boundary of mind and body seems to waver.
A haiku work by Seiji Suzuki. Centered on hail as a fierce seasonal image, it compresses the roughness of nature and heightened human feeling into the short fixed form.
A work that turns the hardness and sudden force of hail into haiku tension.
A haiku work by Choso Matsubayashi. It joins the handwork of papermaking with the scene of a ravine, binding nature, labor, and stillness into haiku images.
Papermaking by hand and the cool air of a ravine create a quiet haiku landscape.
Shikozuma Sho is the haiku sequence by Kinuko Kawabe that won the seventh Kadokawa Haiku Award. It depicts the life of a day laboring woman with self-mocking force, and is discussed as one of the early award's most urgent works of lived experience.
A haiku sequence of labor and self-scrutiny, marked by an intense sense of lived life.
Kamamori no Uta is the haiku sequence by Sadao Shibasaki that won the seventh Kadokawa Haiku Award. Its title evokes the labor of tending a kiln and the presence of fire, suggesting haiku grounded in work and daily life.
A haiku sequence that draws the time of daily life from the work of tending a kiln.
A collection showing Hekiteikan Isogai's early haiku after studying under Kusatao Nakamura. True to its title, it turns everyday sensation and bright wit into compact poems that face the present directly.
It catches the time before one's eyes in light, compact haiku.
東京ぐらし is a poetry by 安立恭彦. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.
東京ぐらし remains associated with 安立恭彦's award-winning career.
北辺有情 is a poetry by 村上しゆら. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.
北辺有情 remains associated with 村上しゆら's award-winning career.
山間 is a haiku collection by 村越化石 that was recognized by the 角川俳句賞. Available public sources mainly make it possible to trace its publication form and later inclusion in collections.
村越化石's 山間 remains traceable today through its award history.
佐渡行 is a work by 岸田稚魚. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.
A prize-winning work by 岸田稚魚.
冬の虹 is a poetry by 沖田佐久子. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.
冬の虹 remains associated with 沖田佐久子's award-winning career.
Tsubana no is a fifty-haiku sequence by Fumiko Kito, awarded the first Kadokawa Haiku Prize under her earlier name. It shows the lyric observation of her early period as a student of Hakyō Ishida and leads into her first haiku collection, Kigutsu.
In a field of blooming cogon grass, I wait for you like a rabbit.