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Miyoshi Tatsuji Award

みよしたつじしょう

A literary award given to poetry collections.

PoetryLiterary award
Established
2006
Organizer
Osaka City
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Application Deadline
around November
Announcement Period
around February
Status
Ended

Description

Sponsored by Osaka City and co-sponsored by Fukui Prefecture. Established in 2006 to commemorate the achievements of poet Miyoshi Tatsuji. Targets poetry collections published from December 1 to the end of November that have been self-nominated or nominated by others. The winner is decided by deliberation among the selection committee, and the recipient receives a certificate, 1 million yen in prize money, and Fukui Prefecture specialty products. Announced every February, with the award ceremony around March. Ended with the 15th edition (2020).

Prize

Main Prize
Certificate and 1 million yen prize money as well as Fukui Prefecture specialty products
Cash Prize
1,000,000 JPY
  • Fukui Prefecture specialty products

Selection

Selection Process

Final selection
Judges Deliberation by the selection committee
Pass Rate Unknown
Announcement Announced every February

Official Resources

https://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/keizaisenryaku/page/0000009268.html

Past Winners

Monica Sato さとう もにか award

A poetry collection that draws the shape of the world from the atmosphere of morning, set against memories of Brazil and Okinawa, the presence of family, and the feeling of movement. Its light touch quietly layers the experience of migration with the textures of everyday life.

In the morning light, distant memories and present life quietly connect.

90 pages
poetry collectionmorningfamilyOkinawaBrazilmigration memory
与那覇幹夫 よなは みきお award

"Jikuu no Nakasu de" is the final poetry collection by poet Mikio Yonaha, born in Miyako Island, in which he layers island memory, the harshness of life, and a gaze toward the dead over deep layers of time. It has a quiet but urgent intensity, looking at both the brightness of the southern landscape and the pain hidden within it.

Mikio Yonaha's final poetry collection looks even into the pain hidden deep within the island's light.

94 pages
Miyako IslandOkinawan memorydeep timegaze toward the deadprayersouthern landscape
上手宰 かみて さい award

This sixth poetry collection by Sai Kamite explores forms of love directed toward longing, the self, family, nature, the divine, and the age through dialogues with various versions of you. With softness and humor, it looks toward the place of dialogue beneath daily life and poetic making.

Like a bookmark ribbon, the poems quietly keep waiting at the place of dialogue with you.

104 pages
DialogueLoveDaily lifeContemporary poetry
服部誕 はっとり たん award

This poetry collection by Tan Hattori captures moments when everyday scenery suddenly turns into unfamiliar ground. Street corners, trains, memory, and traces of earthquake experience are held as quiet gaps in the ordinary.

With the delicacy of shaving a crescent moon, the poems catch small moments of strangeness within everyday life.

123 pages
Contemporary poetryEveryday transformationMemoryUrban scenes
Takashi Kuroiwa くろいわ たかし award

A poetry collection that crystallizes scenes from dream and memory as impressions of light and color. Images such as a blue mosquito net, stone Buddhas, persimmons, and waves quietly depict flickering time.

In seasonal light, memory and dream quietly flicker.

85 pages
modern poetrymemoryseasonslight and color
大橋政人 おおはし まさと award

A poetry collection by Masato Ohashi. Centered on questions addressed to Michio Mado, it overlaps reverence for the poet with the search for the author's own words. In a gentle voice, it places fundamental questions about writing and reading poetry.

Questions to a poet become a quiet dialogue for finding one's own language.

111 pages
poetrydialogueMichio Madoquestions about language
Shuntaro Tanikawa たにかわ しゅんたろう award

詩に就いて is an award-winning work by 谷川俊太郎. 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.

詩に就いて, an award-winning work by 谷川俊太郎.

award-winning workliterary prizehuman portrayal
Junko Takahashi たかはし じゅんこ award

Umi e is a poetry collection in which Junko Takahashi gives words to memory, loss, and prayer around the sea. As if returning grief and anxiety to the sea, it lets personal feeling resonate with the larger time of nature.

Opening the window of words, the poems return sorrow to the sea.

122 pages
poetrysealossmemoryprayer
Fujita Haruo ふじた はるお award

夕顔 by 藤田晴央 is presented here with confirmed bibliographic information and a concise account of its subject matter. The entry keeps book identifiers separate from reviews and availability notes.

A concise profile of 夕顔 by 藤田晴央, including award and bibliographic context.

93 pages
literatureaward workbibliographic context
Takashina Kiichi たかしな きいち award

いつか別れの日のために is a work by 高階杞一. It is recorded as a prize-related title from 2013, and the available bibliographic sources were checked for standalone book identifiers.

いつか別れの日のために was checked as an award-listed work by 高階杞一.

87 pages
award workbibliographic researchliterary prize
Kazuyuki Hosomi ほそみ かずゆき award

家族の午後 is recorded as a winning work for miyoshi tatsuji 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 家族の午後; bibliographic identifiers are limited to sources confirmed as the work itself.

award-winning workbibliographic verificationliterary award record
Kasuya Eiichi かすや えいいち award

Centered on the image of a distant river, this poetry collection measures time, memory, and existential distance. Its concise language carries long-sinking reflection.

遠い川 is an award-winning work by 粕谷栄市 that can be confirmed in book form.

89 pages
poetryrivermemory
Hiroshi Nagata ながた ひろし award

A poetry collection by Hiroshi Osada. Looking quietly at everyday landscapes, reading, music, and memories of those who are gone, the poems trace the layers of time behind the visible world. Including the title poem, the collection illuminates aging, ease, and the ethics of daily life in gentle language.

A quiet collection of poems for saying that beautiful things are beautiful.

104 pages
modern poetrymemoryeveryday landscapesagingreading and music
Masaki Ikei いけい まさき award

眠れる旅人 is a work by 池井昌樹 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.

眠れる旅人 by 池井昌樹 is a work read through the lens of its award history and publication form.

117 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturepublication history
Tanaka Kiyomitsu たなか きよみつ award

風景は絶頂をむかえ is a work by 田中清光 and a winner of miyoshi-tatsuji-award 2008-1. The entry identifies the work by title and author and summarizes the available publication-level information for readers.

風景は絶頂をむかえ, by 田中清光.

prize-winning workcontemporary literatureauthorial career
Keiichi Ito いとう けいいち award

ある年の年頭の所感 is a poetry work by 伊藤桂一. It uses rhythm, pause, and white space to condense everyday feeling, memory, and shifting landscapes.

ある年の年頭の所感, by 伊藤桂一, follows the emotions and texture of its time at the heart of the work.

poetrymemorylandscapelanguage
Tetsuo Shimizu しみず てつお award

A poetry collection by Tetsuo Shimizu that traces aging, accumulated time, and details of daily life between lyricism and observation.

黄燐と投げ縄 is a work with a distinctive character worthy of its award recognition.

87 pages
poetryagingtimelyricism