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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."

HaikuNewcomer AwardOpen submission
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Established in 1955, it selects from 50 unpublished haiku.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

岡田由季 おかだ ゆき award

"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.

Kadokawa Haiku Prizeaward-winning work
Kei Iwata いわた けい award

A haiku magazine feature containing the winning piece “Red Dream.”

A single verse on the page is recorded as the award-winning work.

256 pages
haikumagazine publicationaward workcontemporary haiku
Kirin Nishimura にしむら きりん award

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.

haikufifty-poem sequencenewcomer awardmagazine publication
抜井諒一 ぬくい りょういち award

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.

188 pages
haikufifty-poem sequencedaily lifeparentingseasonal topics
Gyugo Suzuki すずき うしろ award

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.

haikucattlerural lifeseasondaily life
Popona Tsukino つきの ぽぽな award

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.

192 pages
bodily sensationurban lifeseasonscross-border experiencecontemporary haiku
松野苑子 まつの そのこ award

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.

award-recognized workbibliographic verificationcontemporary literature
遠藤由樹子 えんどう ゆきこ award

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.

haiku sequenceseasonal sensibilitychanging landscapes
柘植史子 つげ ふみこ 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.

110 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
清水良郎 しみず りょうろう award

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.

haikunaturepublication not confirmed
Takao Hirowatari ひろわたり たかお award

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.

228 pages
haikulifedaily lifenatureKadokawa 21st Century Haiku Series
Togo Nagase ながせ じゅうご award

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.

271 pages
haikuGreat East Japan EarthquakeFukushimamourning
Shu Mochizuki もちづき しゅう award

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.

haikuseasonalitycontemporary sensibility
Yumu Yamaguchi やまぐち ゆめ award

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.

haikuseasonalitycontemporary sensibility
Chie Aiko あいこ ちえ award

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.

文学賞受賞作
安倍真理子 あべ まりこ award

'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.

poetic expression
Eriko Tsugawa つがわ えりこ award

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.

family and memoryself-discoverysocial pressure
千々和恵美子 ちぢわ えみこ award

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.

247 pages
haikusketching from lifeseasonobservation
原雅子 はら まさこ award

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.

haikusummerseasonnot confirmed as a book
Naka Kansen award

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.

railwaytravelhaiku
馬場龍吉 award

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.

poetryembodied perceptionmemory
加藤静夫 award

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.

haikueveryday observationresonance of language
桑原立生 award

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.

193 pages
Haiku collectionPrize-winning workModern Japanese literature
高畑浩平 award

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.

award-recognized literature
須藤常央 award

"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.

haiku workaward-winning work
依光陽子 award

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.

award-recognized workcharacter portrayalsense of period

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.

角川俳句賞早苗饗literature
高千夏子 award

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.

角川俳句賞真中literature
山本一歩 award

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.

work overview
市堀玉宗 award

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.

award-winning literaturehuman experiencesociety and time
阿部静雄 あべ しずお award

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.

award-winning workliterary prize雪曼陀羅
早野和子 はやの かずこ award

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.

award-winning workliterary prize運河
Madoka Mayuzumi まゆずみ まどか encouragement award

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.

award-winning workliterary prizeB面の夏
松本ヤチヨ まつもと やちよ award

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.

a work of poetryaward-winning work
寺島ただし てらじま ただし award

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.

俳句海辺土地
藤野武 ふじの たけし award

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.

俳句山峡季節
奥名春江 おくな はるえ award

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.

俳句冬木季節
柚木紀子 ゆずき のりこ award

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.

haikuprayerboundaryfifty-poem sequencenew writer prize
北村保 きたむら たもつ award

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.

seasonalityobservationresonance
Yumi Iwata いわた ゆみ award

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.

haikuchildhoodbodily feelingeveryday unease
鶴田玲子 つるた れいこ award

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.

prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
林佑子 はやし ゆうこ award

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.

haikunatureseasonseveryday life
辻恵美子 つじ えみこ award

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.

206 pages
haikunatureseasonseveryday life
淵脇護 ふちわき まもる award

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.

volcanoeslandscapenature and daily life
駒走鷹志 こまはし たかし award

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.

the northcolormemory of place
河村静香 かわむら しずか award

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.

seafree-verse haikusolitude
Ichiro Senda せんだ いちろ award

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.

award-winning work俳句作品1985
浅野如水 あさの じょすい award

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.

award-winning work俳句作品1985
木内彰志 きうち あきし award

“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.”

haikuseasonal imagerynature
Etsuko Oishi おおいし えつこ award

“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.”

haikuseasonal imagerynature
秋篠光広 あきしの みつひろ award

"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.

award-winning workJapanese literaturebibliographic verification
Tokiya Sugawara すがわら ときや award

"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.

award-winning workJapanese literaturebibliographic verification
稲富義明 いなとみ よしあき award

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.

Hiroaki Tanaka たなか ひろあき award

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.

No winner
摂津よしこ せっつ よしこ award

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.

133 pages
haikusummerseasonalityeveryday lifethresholds
後藤綾子 ごとう あやこ award

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.

haikufixed formeveryday lifefragmentsKadokawa Haiku Award
金子のぼる かねこ のぼる award

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.

haikunatureseasonal feelinglocal landscape
加藤憲曠 かとう けんこう award

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.

haikunatureseasonal feelinglocal landscape
小熊一人 おぐま ひとり award

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.

haikuseanaturequiet
Kodama Teruyo こだま てるよ award

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.

haikumountain villageOku-Mikawaseasons
Ito Michiaki いとう みちあき award

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.

haikuwhite peachlyricismfixed form
黒木野雨 くろきの あめ award

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.

haikutravelnorthern landscapesregional climate
宮田正和 みやた まさかず award

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.

haikuIgaplacedaily life
米田一穂 award

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.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context

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.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context

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.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
Eiko Suzuki award

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.

175 pages
haikuliving creatureshumornature
横溝養三 award

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.

award-winning workwork

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.

award-winning workliterary prizepublication status
辺見京子 award

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.

haikuplacepotterylived texture
Mizue Yamada award

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.

117 pages
俳句季節家族
秋山卓三 award

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.

haikunaturesolitude

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.

haikunaturememory
No winner
江見渉 えみ わたる award

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.

haikudaily lifebodily sensationunpublished fifty-poem sequence
山口英二 やまぐち えいじ award

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.

haikuold booksmemoryunpublished fifty-poem sequence
大内登志子 おおうち としこ award

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.

haikumind and bodytensionunpublished fifty-poem sequence
鈴木誠司 すずき せいじ award

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.

haikunaturehailtension
松林朝蒼 まつばやし ちょうそう award

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.

haikuhandworkravinenature
川辺きぬ子 かわべ きぬこ award

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.

haikulabordaily lifeself-scrutinyKadokawa Haiku Award
柴崎左田男 しばさき さだお award

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.

haikukilnlabordaily lifeKadokawa Haiku Award
Isogai Hekiteikan いそがい へきていかん award

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.

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安立恭彦 あんりつ やすひこ award

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.

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村上しゆら むらかみ しゆら award

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.

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Murakoshi Kaseki むらこし かせき award

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.

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Kishida Chigyo きしだ ちぎょ award

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.

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沖田佐久子 おきた さくこ award

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.

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鬼頭文子 きとう ふみこ award

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.

early haikuwaiting in lovewild grasses and flowers