Kuzuhara Taeko Award
くずはらたえこしょう
A literary award recognizing outstanding tanka collections by mid-career female tanka poets.
- Established
- 2005
- Organizer
- Sunagoya Shobo
- Category
- Tanka
- Selection Method
- Recommendation
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Kuzuhara Taeko Award is sponsored by Sunakoya Shobo and targets outstanding tanka collections by mid-career female tanka poets. It was established in 2005 to commemorate the achievements of tanka poet Taeko Kuzuhara, succeeding the Kono Aiko Award, which was created in 1991. It pairs with the Terayama Shuji Tanka Award, which targets tanka collections by mid-career male tanka poets, and the judging committees and award ceremonies for both awards are held simultaneously. It ended in 2016.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Certificate and 300,000 yen prize money
- Cash Prize
- 300,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judging meeting | Hiroshi Shino, Yukitsuna Sasaki, Hikaru Koike, Takako Kayama (2013) | — | Announced at the award ceremony |
Related Awards
- Kono Aiko Award
- Terayama Shuji Tanka Award
Past Winners
ゼクエンツ is a work by 河野美砂子 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.
Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work ゼクエンツ.
リアス／椿 by 梶原さい子 is introduced as a work that 震災を直接の記録だけに閉じず、日常の言葉のなかで何度も立ち戻る作品として読まれている。抑制された表現が、土地と家族の記憶を強く残す点を評価する声がある。
リアス／椿 leads readers into its world through 震災短歌.
夏の辻 is an award-winning work by 百々登美子. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.
夏の辻 by 百々登美子.
バード・バード is a work by なみの亜子. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.
バード・バード was checked as an award-listed work by なみの亜子.
A fifth tanka collection titled with the word for horse, centering on horses as figures that enfold life's joys and sorrows and on a vivid sense of the body. Moving between traditional diction and contemporary sensibility, it crystallizes everyday texture and bodily openness into poems.
The presence of horses and bodily sensation gently enfold the joys and sorrows of life.
Ojona Densetsu is a tanka collection by Yuriko Matsumura. It layers contemporary life with mythic images of women and addresses work, the body, time, Okinawa, and history through short poems.
From the texture of daily life rises the mythic figure of a great woman.
A critical study of Taeko Kuzuhara, a major postwar tanka poet. It reads her visionary imagination, religious motifs, and bodily imagery in relation to her life, historical context, and the history of modern tanka.
The book rereads Taeko Kuzuhara's postwar tanka from both historical and expressive angles.
場所の記憶 is a work of poetry and tanka by 小林幸子. It centers on 短歌と詩歌の言葉 and layers in 土地と記憶, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.
場所の記憶 is an important poetry and tanka work in the award history of 小林幸子.
'花の線画' is a winning work of the 葛原妙子賞 by Mikiko Yokoyama.
'花の線画' is a winning work of the 葛原妙子賞 by Mikiko Yokoyama.
A tanka collection by Yuko Sakai that crystallizes images of sky and everyday life in precise poetic form.
矩形の空 draws readers in through its focus on tanka.
Reiko Oguchi's third tanka collection, using sharp metaphor and bodily sensation to write about life in Tohoku, intimacy, and social unease including nuclear power.
Tohoku place names and bodily sensation quietly collide in the tanka.
A tanka collection by Sumi Konno. Under a title with classical resonance, it condenses everyday sensation, the passage of time, and the depth of language into the tanka form. It is read within the context of contemporary Japanese poetry.
A tanka collection by Sumi Konno where classical resonance meets contemporary sensibility.