"Junanagatsu no Musumetachi" is the tanka sequence with which Miyako Mutsuki won the 63rd Kadokawa Tanka Award. Later included in her first collection Dance with the invisibles, it gathers the body, intimacy, urban atmospheres, and pre-verbal textures into a poetic movement that crosses boundaries.

The sequence lets pre-verbal sensations sway between city and body.

"Fukuranda Fusen o Daite" is the tanka sequence with which Hanna Kang received runner-up recognition at the 63rd Kadokawa Tanka Award. Through the perspective of a person from abroad living in Japan, it turns urban crowding, linguistic distance, family feeling, and small daily dislocations into poems that hold both brightness and pain.

The sequence turns the uncertainty of holding an inflated balloon into a bodily feeling of living in Tokyo.

"Nile Perch no Uroko" is a tanka sequence by Kurara Chibana that received honorable mention at the 63rd Kadokawa Tanka Award. Included in her first collection Hajimari wa, Koi, it presents love, the body, home, travel, and social experience through the poet's own voice shaped by modeling and international work.

The sequence vividly draws up hidden depths of feeling through the language of love and the body.