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.