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Kadokawa Haiku Prize かどかわはいくしょう

Edition 26 (1980)

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Winners

2 people
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