Kako Yo's first tanka collection. Drawing on daily work with words as a newspaper reporter, it records the ethics of news, memories of war, the individual within institutions, and the tension of communicating current events.

The opening sequence follows faxes sounding at a dawn desk and a single-character change in a correction message. War sleeping in public archives, anonymity in reporting, and a reporter after retirement are drawn from concrete work of investigation.

A tanka collection by Satoko Kawano. Centred on images of water lilies, it layers family memory, the wounds of war, environmental anxiety, and everyday life to listen for diverse voices in an unsettled world.

A collection that treats the water lily as an image linking fire and water, life and death, moving between private life and social events.

Yoko Mizuhara’s tanka collection Keraku, published as a standalone book and also known as a recipient of the 21st Maekawa Samio Prize.

A dense crystallization of twenty-first-century feeling in tanka form.

An essayistic study tracing the life of Yoshii Isamu and his early Showa travel and song journeys, rereading the young count-poet’s footsteps through the lens of modern tanka and travel.

A journey through the travel and literature of the young count-poet Yoshii Isamu.

晩年の視点を含む歌集。前川佐美雄賞受賞作で、老いや喪失を静かに見つめる作品が多い。

亀さんゐない

Hidenori Fujishima's third tanka collection brings together marriage, aging, care, death, and the details of daily life. It turns the strangeness hidden in ordinary living into poems, carrying forward the years after his previous collection while opening private experience to readers.

A third tanka collection that looks at marriage and mortality through the texture of daily life.

This tanka collection by Yukari Kojima captures the texture of daily life, bodily feeling, family, and the presence of time in finely measured language. A poet in her mature period brings out the tremor and humor within ordinary events through disciplined rhythm.

A tanka collection that sharply gathers moments from everyday life and leaves a quiet aftertaste.

男性性や生の感触を、短歌の形式で鋭く刻む歌集。前川佐美雄賞受賞作として、現代短歌の一冊として確認できる。

男を歌い、歌がまた男を問い返す。

Jun Komon's first tanka collection gathers poems selected from works written between 1971 and 2007. It brings out hometown memory, nature, family, solitude, and prayer in a quiet voice and with assured rhythm.

A first collection in which the poet's own voice and breath can be heard from deep within a long life in tanka.

蓮喰ひ人の日記 is a work by 黒瀬珂瀾 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 蓮喰ひ人の日記.

磐梯 by 本田一弘 is introduced as a work that 福島の土地に根ざした切実な視線と、震災後の生活感覚を短歌へ定着させる力が評価されている。硬質な言葉のなかに、故郷への距離と痛みが残る。

磐梯 leads readers into its world through 現代短歌.

水仙の章 is an award-winning work by 栗木京子. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

水仙の章 by 栗木京子.

燕麦 is a work by 吉川宏志. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.

燕麦 was checked as an award-listed work by 吉川宏志.

Akiko Baba's twenty-third tanka collection. It receives vanished times, absent people, and the spoken texture of daily life, while a darker lyricism and an awareness of aging run underneath. The collection joins lightness of voice with deep elegiac feeling.

A collection that sings of what will not return through colloquial lightness and dark lyricism.

Bokusui Kenkyu No. 8 is a research journal issue edited by the Bokusui Kenkyukai, focused on people surrounding Wakayama Bokusui. It rereads his poetry through contemporaries, friends, family, and local ties, presenting a many-sided view of his place in modern tanka history.

It rereads Bokusui not only through his works, but through the network of people around him.

Tomohiko Kusumi traces the early life of the avant-garde tanka poet Kunio Tsukamoto, who was also his mentor, following the roots of the fierce aesthetic that later reshaped postwar tanka.

A biographical study that approaches Kunio Tsukamoto's art through the verbal urgency that emerged in wartime.

ゆきあひの空 is a work of poetry and tanka by 石川不二子. 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.

ゆきあひの空 is an important poetry and tanka work in the award history of 石川不二子.

詩歌の琉球 is a work of poetry and tanka by 渡英子. 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.

詩歌の琉球 is an important poetry and tanka work in the award history of 渡英子.

'東洋の秋' is a winning work of the 前川佐美雄賞 by Shuzo Shimada.

'東洋の秋' is a winning work of the 前川佐美雄賞 by Shuzo Shimada.

Tanioka Aki's third tanka collection. Through perspectives on cities and Asia, it addresses violence, history, and people at the margins with charged images and restless movement in language.

One poem presents a person holding up empty cans in both hands, drawing urban crowds and the atmosphere of a market toward an individual body. Selections were later included in Tanioka Aki Kashu.

Kyoko Inaba's twelfth tanka collection gathers poems shaped by a long career, rendering daily texture, aging, and the shadows of memory in a quiet voice.

椿の館 is a work with a distinctive character worthy of its award recognition.

A late tanka collection by Chieko Yamanaka. Mythic and classical diction overlaps with the deep reflection of a long poetic career, continuing to question existence and memory within the rhythms of tanka.

A tanka collection where mythic resonance meets the introspection of Yamanaka's later years.

Hikaru Koike reads Mokichi Saito's tanka collections from his fifties, tracing changes and maturity in poetic expression. The work attends closely to individual poems while relating them to life and period.

茂吉を読む―五十代五歌集 is a work whose contours are visible through its award history, with the author's concerns emerging through subject and voice.

Tohoku is Reiko Oguchi's second tanka collection. Drawing on her experience teaching Japanese in China and living in northeastern Japan, it distills place, nation, faith, and personal solitude into sharply observed poems.

A moving body and the memory of place create tension within the brief lines of tanka.