Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award
みつこしさちおしょうねんししょう
The Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award is a literary award established in 1997 by the Japan Children's Literature Authors Association, targeting poetry collections for boys and girls.
- Established
- 1997
- Organizer
- Japan Children's Literature Authors Association
- Category
- Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Open
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around May–July
- Status
- Active
Description
Established by the Japan Children's Literature Authors Association upon receiving a fund entrusted by the bereaved family of poet Mitsukoshi Sachio. It targets poetry collections for boys and girls (including nursery rhyme collections) published in the previous year by mid-career and emerging poets, with the aim of promoting children's poetry. From the 21st edition, it has been hosted solely by the Japan Children's Literature Authors Association.
Official Resources
https://jibunkyo.or.jp/release_category/003/Past Winners
Through insect imagery and bodily sensation, this second poetry collection reconsiders what it means not to grow. With 37 poems, its quiet accumulation of language evokes a different sense of time.
A way of seeing not-growing anew.
A poetry collection built on the familiarity of nursery-rhyme-like rhythms and everyday textures. Through small creatures, seasonal touches, and playful wordplay, it leaves a gentle trace in the reader's memory.
Ra-ta-ta, paper airplanes, and snails: light, lively language turns everyday scenes into poetry.
The winning collection for the 24th Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Prize. It is a poetry collection that lightly captures children's play and playful turns of phrase, published as a private edition by Libre.
A light, approachable poetry collection that turns the feeling of play directly into words.
Midori Ookusu's poetry collection Hatena to Bikkuri traces small surprises and emotional shifts in everyday life with language open to younger readers.
Across three sections, the poems move through seasons, a second self, and a cry from the heart.
This collection of children's poems by Nobukazu Handa gathers short pieces on footprints, rainbows, wind, chrysalises, animals, and small seasonal changes, building a gentle world accessible to young readers.
A runner, wind, animals, and the tail of the seasons breathe quietly in poems for children.
A poetry collection for children that values gentle language and discoveries in everyday life. It gathers friendship and familiar scenes into accessible poems.
From familiar words, friendship and the world gradually open outward.
A poetry collection by Kanae Kakimoto. It turns a child's point of view and small everyday discoveries into gentle verse, with the title itself suggesting the wonder and delight of writing.
From the moment of holding a pen, everyday discoveries rise into poetry.
A poetry collection by Noriko Sano. Using nearby nature and small living things as its subjects, it revisits the world through simple metaphor and a sense of sound, with a bright imagination accessible to children.
From the shape of a small living thing, an imagination that seems to make the world sound begins to spread.
タロとあるく is an award-winning work by 祐成智美. Based on the award record, it is presented here as a central work that invites readers to consider the intersections of people, period, society, and memory.
タロとあるく, an award-winning work by 祐成智美.
Mushi no Koibumi is a children's poetry collection by Kyoko Nishizawa that received the Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award. It catches the small lives and loves of insects like letters, opening a view of nature in language accessible to children.
The voices of tiny insects become poems like love letters.
かなぶん is an award-winning work by 清水ひさし. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.
かなぶん by 清水ひさし.
クケンナガヤ is an award-winning work by 檜きみこ. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.
クケンナガヤ by 檜きみこ.
ねこたちの夜 is a work by さわださちこ. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.
ねこたちの夜 was checked as an award-listed work by さわださちこ.
おーい山ん子 is a work by 最上二郎. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.
おーい山ん子 was checked as an award-listed work by 最上二郎.
こうこいも is recorded as a winning work for mitsukoshi sachio youth poetry award in 2012-1. The identifier check prioritized Amazon Japan, the National Diet Library, and publisher pages, but no confirmed ASIN or ISBN for the winning work itself was established in this batch. Identifiers for magazines or adjacent media have therefore not been reused.
The work is recorded as こうこいも; bibliographic identifiers are limited to sources confirmed as the work itself.
A book of poems that looks at crying and movements of the heart in plain language close to a child's voice. Together with Kaori Ogashiwa's illustrations, it leaves room to accept emotion as it is.
ぼくたちはなく is an award-winning work by 内田麟太郎 that can be confirmed in book form.
A poetry book that writes softly about everyday partings and reunions. Its plainness, accessible to children, carries a small hope directed toward tomorrow.
またあした is an award-winning work by 鈴木初江 that can be confirmed in book form.
Miyuki Sugimoto's poetry collection approaches kanji through shape, sound, and meaning in a way accessible to young readers.
A book of poems and images that invites readers to feel kanji rather than only learn them.
あしたの風 is a work by 藤井かなめ recorded as a 2009 award-winning title. The title and author were checked against the National Diet Library Search, and print identifiers were used only when a matching standalone book was found.
あしたの風 by 藤井かなめ is a work read through the lens of its award history and publication form.
猫町五十四番地 is a work by 間中ケイ子 and a winner of mitsukoshi-sachio-youth-poetry-award 2008-1. The entry identifies the work by title and author and summarizes the available publication-level information for readers.
猫町五十四番地, by 間中ケイ子.
おひさまのパレット is a poetry work by いとうゆうこ. It uses rhythm, pause, and white space to condense everyday feeling, memory, and shifting landscapes.
おひさまのパレット, by いとうゆうこ, follows the emotions and texture of its time at the heart of the work.
A poetry work by Yasuko Murase, centered on the openness suggested by its title and the movement of a young voice toward the outside world.
窓をひらいて is a work with a distinctive character worthy of its award recognition.
An encyclopedia of Japanese children's songs that explains nursery rhymes, school songs, and dōyō through lyrics, origins, authors, and historical significance.
日本童謡事典 is a work with a distinctive character worthy of its award recognition.
Sora no Iriguchi is a poetry collection for young readers by Matsuyo Kainuma. Using language close to a child's sense of the world, it gathers small perceptions found at the threshold of sky, nature, and everyday life. As a Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award winner, it belongs to the context of children's literature and youth poetry.
A poetry collection that opens small doors between the sky and everyday life through a child's sensibility.
Ichido Kieta Mono wa is a poetry collection by Lee Geum-ok. It looks again at things that have disappeared or been lost, using language that can reach younger readers. Published by Teraink, it is recorded as a special-prize work for the Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award.
Quiet poetic language looks once more at the traces of what has disappeared.
Ken Kikunaga's poetic work uses a child's viewpoint and the colors of nature to perceive the world with gentle sensitivity. The brightness of the title also carries the uncertainty of growing up.
原っぱの虹 is a work whose contours are visible through its award history, with the author's concerns emerging through subject and voice.
Nana Tanaka's poetic work, titled after fresh greenery, expresses vivid feeling and a direct sense of wonder toward language. It leaves a bright aftertaste.
新緑 is a work whose contours are visible through its award history, with the author's concerns emerging through subject and voice.
Tomorrow's Me Is a New Me is Chihiro Ishizu's first poetry collection. It includes the title poem along with anagrams, tongue twisters, and other playful poems that invite reading aloud, while also capturing a girl's feelings with brightness and sensitivity.
The pleasure of wordplay makes tomorrow's self feel a little new.
シオンがさいた is a work by 尾上尚子. It was selected for the 三越左千夫少年詩賞 in 2001 and was recognized within the literary culture of its time.
A work by 尾上尚子 recognized by the 三越左千夫少年詩賞.
2000 is an award-recognized work by the author, centered on the concerns suggested by its title and the texture of its people and time.
2000 is a work remembered through its award recognition.
2000 is an award-recognized work by the author, centered on the concerns suggested by its title and the texture of its people and time.
2000 is a work remembered through its award recognition.
だあれもいない日 is a poetry for young readers by 山中利子. The work approaches its subject through the people, places, memories, or social tensions suggested by the title.
だあれもいない日 brings together the shape of a poetry for young readers with 山中利子's central concerns.
ハテルマシキナ よみがえりの島・波照間 is a poetry for young readers by 桜井信夫. The work approaches its subject through the people, places, memories, or social tensions suggested by the title.
ハテルマシキナ よみがえりの島・波照間 brings together the shape of a poetry for young readers with 桜井信夫's central concerns.
太陽へ is a work by 小泉周二 and a title recognized in the context of its literary award. It can be read as a work that develops its themes through the motives suggested by the title, the characters' actions, and the atmosphere around them.
太陽へ leaves readers with the central concerns for which the work was recognized.
とうちゃん is a work by 高橋恵子 and a title recognized in the context of its literary award. It can be read as a work that develops its themes through the motives suggested by the title, the characters' actions, and the atmosphere around them.
とうちゃん leaves readers with the central concerns for which the work was recognized.
空のなみだ is a work by 菅原優子 that was recognized by the 三越左千夫少年詩賞 in 1997. It is read as a published literary work.
空のなみだ, a work recognized by the 三越左千夫少年詩賞.
草の上 is a work by 重清良吉 that was recognized by the 三越左千夫少年詩賞 in 1997. It is read as a published literary work.
草の上, a work recognized by the 三越左千夫少年詩賞.