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Japan Poetry, Tanka and Haiku Grand Prize にほんしかくくたいしょう

Edition 6 (2010)

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Winners

2 people
Itsuko Ishikawa いしかわ いつこ award

The Sea of Rongelap is a poetry collection facing the memory of radiation exposure and the sea around Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It gives language to the shadow of nuclear testing not as a distant event but as pain remaining in the sea and human bodies.

A work that listens to the nuclear wounds left in the sea as poetic voices.

161 pages
poetrynuclear testingRongelapseamemory
Kako Souya かこ そうや award

Hana no Ame is a haiku collection by Soya Kako. Through seasonal presences such as flowers and rain, it holds quietness, change, and layered time within the brief vessel of haiku.

From the presence of flowers and rain, the time of daily life quietly unfolds.

181 pages
haikuflowersrainseasondaily life