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Japan Poetry Tanka Haiku Association Prize にほんしかくきょうかいしょう

Edition 18 (2022)

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Winners

4 people
金指安行 association award

A set of haiku that builds rhythm around sumo and the atmosphere of the ring.

In a single instant on the ring, the outline of the season emerges.

haikusumoseasonal imagery
原比呂子 association award

A set of haiku under the title “Ikiru,” read as poetic sensation.

The texture of living is compressed into brief words.

haikulifesensory language
高木恵理 association award

A haiku work that uses the freshness of lemon water as an entry point and briefly binds bodily sensation to seasonal contours.

From the coldness of a single sip, the verse opens.

haikulemon waterbodily sensationseasonal imagery
徳田吉映 association award

A critical work that uses Shichiro Fukazawa's Narayama Bushiko as a starting point to discuss the work's ethics and its view of elder abandonment.

It reconsiders attitudes toward life and death and the contours of community through a classical subject.

criticismShichiro Fukazawaelder abandonmentlife and death