Japan Poetry Tanka Haiku Association Prize にほんしかくきょうかいしょう
Edition 18 (2022)
Winners
4 peopleA 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.
A set of haiku under the title “Ikiru,” read as poetic sensation.
The texture of living is compressed into brief words.
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.
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.