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Kadokawa Tanka Award かどかわたんかしょう

Edition 26 (1980)

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Winners

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吉沢昌実 よしざわ まさみ award

"Kaze Tenshi" is a fifty-tanka sequence by Masami Yoshizawa. It received the 26th Kadokawa Tanka Award in 1980 and was published as the winning work in volume 27, issue 8 of the magazine Tanka.

A sequence of fifty tanka selected for the Kadokawa Tanka Award in 1980.

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Norio Tokita ときた のりお award

Hitohira no Kumo is a sequence of fifty tanka by Norio Tokita. Rooted in the life of a farmer in Tokachi, Hokkaido, it brings the feel of land, snow, family, and labor into tanka, already showing the style that would later define him as a farming poet.

An early tanka sequence by Norio Tokita born from the land and daily life of Tokachi.

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Nishiou San さいおう さん nominee

Hashire, Madoromi is an early tanka sequence by San Nishiou, recorded as a candidate work for the Kadokawa Tanka Award. Later placed at the opening of the collection Lullaby of Birdland, it brings musical and cinematic atmospheres together with an urban, dreamlike texture in compact tanka form.

A sequence that sets drowsiness in motion, translating urban and musical atmospheres into the speed of tanka.

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