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Kadokawa Tanka Award かどかわたんかしょう

Edition 15 (1969)

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Yuko Kawano award

Ohka no Kioku is the fifty-tanka sequence with which Yuko Kawano won the Kadokawa Tanka Prize as a young poet. It stands as an early representative work, marked by vivid bodily sensation and urgent love, and later connected to her first collection Mori no yo ni Kemono no yo ni.

An early sequence that sings the tremor of a young body and memory through the image of cherry blossoms.

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