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Kadokawa Haiku Prize かどかわはいくしょう

Edition 21 (1975)

HaikuNewcomer AwardOpen submission

Winners

2 people
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