Kadokawa Haiku Prize かどかわはいくしょう
Edition 8 (1962)
HaikuNewcomer AwardOpen submission
Winners
2 peopleA 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.
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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.
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