Kadokawa Haiku Prize かどかわはいくしょう
Edition 26 (1980)
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2 peopleNatsugamo 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
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