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Mitsukoshi Sachio Youth Poetry Award みつこしさちおしょうねんししょう

Edition 9 (2005)

Youth poetryChildren's songs

Winners

2 people
海沼松世 かいぬま まつよ award

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.

79 pages
youth poetrynaturechildlike perceptionsky
Ri Kingyoku (Lee Geum-ok) り きんぎょく special award

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.

youth poetrylossmemoryquiet attention