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Japan Traditional Haiku Association Prize にほんでんとうはいくきょうかいしょう

Edition 30 (2019)

Haiku

Winners

1 people
宮下末子 みやした すえこ award

A linked sequence of haiku on Noto’s agehama salt-making. Through salt fields, brine scattering, kiln work, and seasonal light, it condenses labor and local time.

The light and heat of the salt fields crystallize in the poems.

haikuNotoagehama salt fieldslabor