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Oguma Hideo Award

おぐまひでおしょう

Poetry literary award honoring poet Oguma Hideo from Hokkaido

PoetryLiterature
Established
1968
Organizer
Oguma Hideo Award Citizens' Executive Committee, Asahikawa City
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Open
Frequency
1 per year
Application Deadline
around January
Announcement Period
around April
Status
Active

Description

The Oguma Hideo Award is a national open-call poetry literary award established in Asahikawa City in 1968 to honor the achievements of poet Oguma Hideo. It is sponsored by the Oguma Hideo Award Citizens' Executive Committee and Asahikawa City, soliciting new poetry works every year.

Prize

Main Prize
Poet's Chair (made by Kunio Itatsu)
Cash Prize
300,000 JPY

Selection

Selection Process

Final selection
Judges Arthur Binard, Makoto Horikawa, Aki Sagawa, Akihiko Matsui

Official Resources

http://www.ogumahideo-prize.jp/

Past Winners

No winner
姜湖宙 かん ほじゅ award
鎌田尚美 かまだ なおみ award

The first poetry collection Mochiori gathers poems that sharply cut into the texture of daily life and the presence of absurdity. The weight of small things becomes the density of language itself.

Like carrying a sweet in your palm, the poems gently carry the crack in everyday life.

128 pages
poetryeveryday lifeabsurditylanguage
Eriko Tsugawa つがわ えりこ award

A bilingual Japanese-English poetry collection by a poet living in Ireland, using travel and fragments of daily life to search for a way of loving actively.

In the lull between rains, slugs and snails crawl out from the thicket.

112 pages
travelNew YorkJapanese-English bilingualeveryday lifelove
冨岡悦子 とみおか えつこ award

A poetry collection that listens for violence hidden in everyday life and reconsiders poetic ethics across harm, victimhood, memory, and responsibility.

It moves back and forth across the boundary between the everyday and the event.

71 pages
violenceeveryday liferesponsibilitymemorypoetic ethics
Osamu Takaoka たかおか おさむ award

A poetry collection that listens for violence hidden in everyday life and reconsiders poetic ethics across harm, victimhood, memory, and responsibility.

It moves back and forth across the boundary between the everyday and the event.

71 pages
violenceeveryday liferesponsibilitymemorypoetic ethics
長田典子 おさだ のりこ award

A poetry collection in which Noriko Osada traces the cityscape of New York and the shifting outline of the self through her long stay there.

Morning: I open the window and see the world for the first time today; the tip of the Chrysler Building pierces the sky.

203 pages
New Yorkstudy abroadtravelurban lifeself-discovery
柴田三吉 しばた さんきち award

Sankichi Shibata's Grammar of Travel is a poetry collection shaped by journeys to Okinawa and the Korean Peninsula. Words learned while traveling expand into questions of survival, borders, and the body.

A phrase learned on a journey becomes a poetic grammar for asking about borders and survival.

poetry collectiontravelOkinawaKorean Peninsulaborder
No winner
Ryota Yamada やまだ りょうた award

オバマ・グーグル is an award-winning work by 山田亮太. It is presented here as the work associated with the 小熊秀雄賞.

An award-winning work by 山田亮太: オバマ・グーグル.

award-winning workliterature
網谷厚子 あみたに あつこ award

魂魄風(まぶいかじ) is an award-recognized work by 網谷厚子. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

魂魄風(まぶいかじ) is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

literatureaward-winning workpublication check
Etsuko Nakajima なかじま えつこ award

藁の服 is an award-recognized work by 中島悦子. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

藁の服, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

award-recognized workbibliographic recordpeople and society
No winner
Mai Oe おおえ まい award

にせもの:鹿は人がいないところには行かない is recorded as a 2013 award-winning work. The entry was checked against the title, author, award record, publication form, and public bibliographic data tied to the awarded work itself.

Bibliographic and work information for にせもの:鹿は人がいないところには行かない is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

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与那覇幹夫 よなは みきお award

ワイド―沖縄 is recorded as a 2013 award-winning work. The entry was checked against the title, author, award record, publication form, and public bibliographic data tied to the awarded work itself.

Bibliographic and work information for ワイド―沖縄 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

award-winning workbibliographic verificationliterary award
No winner
酒井一吉 さかい いちきち award

鬼の舞 is a 詩集 by 酒井一吉. The work is recorded as an award-recognized title and presents its subject through the images suggested by the title, the author's concerns, and the movement of memory or feeling.

鬼の舞 presents 酒井一吉's work in the form of 詩集.

119 pages
literary award workmemoryhuman experience
Kohei (Kouhei) Hanazaki はなざき こうへい award

Ainumosir no Kaze ni Fukarete is a long narrative poem that receives the wind across Ainumosir as a broad sense of time. It carries history, land, and Indigenous memory through poetic rhythm.

The wind crossing Ainumosir carries the voices of land and history in poetic form.

162 pages
Ainumosirmemory of landhistorynarrative poetry
浜江順子 はまえ じゅんこ award

“飛行する沈黙” is a 2009 award-winning work by 浜江順子. Bibliographic identifiers are limited to editions that can be confirmed as a standalone book, paperback, or collection, and identifiers for magazine issues are not used.

“飛行する沈黙” is an important work in the record of 浜江順子’s award recognition.

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Takako Arai あらい たかこ award

タマシイ・ダンス is an award-winning work by Takako Arai. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.

タマシイ・ダンス is a work by Takako Arai recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞.

189 pages
the resonance of languagememoryshades of everyday life
竹田朔歩 たけだ さくほ award

サム・フランシスの恁麼 is an award-winning work by 竹田朔歩. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.

サム・フランシスの恁麼 is a work by 竹田朔歩 recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞.

117 pages
the resonance of languagememoryshades of everyday life
斎藤紘二 さいとう こうじ award

直立歩行 is an award-winning work by 斎藤紘二. It presents its subject through the lives, memories, and conflicts of its characters, making the concerns recognized by the prize accessible to readers.

直立歩行 is an award-winning work in which 斎藤紘二 depicts human choices and the weight of time.

award-winning workrelationshipsmemorysociety
水島美津江 みずしま みつえ award

A poetry collection by Mitsue Mizushima. It sharply captures everyday scenes and bodily sensations, letting memory and solitude resonate in a wintry atmosphere.

In winter light, language takes on the shape of memory and solitude.

105 pages
poetrymemorysolitudebodily sensation
寺田美由記 てらだ みゆき award

A poetry collection by a poet rooted in nursing work, drawing language from labor, bodies, relationships, and everyday detail. It opens the institutional vocabulary of care and medicine toward personal feeling and social questions.

The language of nursing turns into a poetic voice that questions the boundary between the individual and the collective.

97 pages
contemporary poetrynursingcarebodylabor
黒羽英二 くろば えいじ award

A poetry collection whose title evokes the shimmer and passing of a brief moment. It was published by Shiga Kobo and is confirmed as an Oguma Hideo Award winner.

須臾の間に follows its characters through choices and change, guided by the central idea suggested by the award title.

contemporary poetrytimememory
Kenichi Sasou さいそう けんいち award

Love, Spotted Seal Poems is a poetry collection by Kenichi Saiso. It shapes everyday sensation and a gaze toward life into urgent language, despite the softness suggested by its title, and received the Oguma Hideo Award.

A collection by Kenichi Saiso where affection for life coexists with the tension of contemporary poetry.

125 pages
contemporary poetrysense of lifeeveryday perceptionOguma Hideo Award
玉川鵬心 たまがわ ほうしん award

花嫌い 神嫌い is a work by 玉川鵬心. It is associated with the 小熊秀雄賞.

花嫌い 神嫌い by 玉川鵬心.

Kotaki Konami こたき こなみ award

星の灰 is a work by こたきこなみ. It was selected for the 小熊秀雄賞 in 2001 and was recognized within the literary culture of its time.

A work by こたきこなみ recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞.

122 pages
literary awardhuman experiencenarrative
Matsuo Seimei まつお しずあき award

2000 is an award-recognized work by the author, centered on the concerns suggested by its title and the texture of its people and time.

2000 is a work remembered through its award recognition.

award-winning literaturehuman relationshipssense of an era
Shin Shimaoka しまおか しん award

乾杯 is a work by 島岡晨. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

乾杯 uses 詩 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

生活出会い別れ
Nagashima Minako ながしま なんこ award

あんパン日記 is a work by 長嶋南子. Recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.

A work recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞, showing 長嶋南子's distinctive voice.

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Kitsugawa Akio きつがわ あきお award

迷路の闇 is an award-recognized work by 木津川昭夫. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

迷路の闇 is a work by 木津川昭夫 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

award-recognized worksocietymemorypeople
Hironobu Sato さとう ひろのぶ award

A critical work that considers what it means for people to be named and called within society and religion, linking everyday names to the relation between individuals and communities.

俗名の思想 uses 思想 as an entry point into human emotion.

思想名前宗教共同体
宮本善一 みやもと ぜんいち award

A literary work with a lyrical title evoking the call of the cuckoo. It brings together nature, memory, observation, and lyricism.

郭公抄 is an award-winning work that concentrates 宮本善一’s style and central concerns.

naturememorylyricism
Aki Sagawa さがわ あき award

Shisha o Futatabi Haramu Yume is a poetry collection by Aki Sagawa. Under a title that suggests carrying the memory of the dead inside the body once again, it probes history, loss, and the will toward renewal through poetic language.

A poetry collection that carries the memory of the dead inward and searches for renewal beyond loss.

100 pages
poetrymemoryloss
Kim Sijong きん じしょう special award

Genya no Uta: Collected Poems 1955-1988 is a large-scale collection of Kim Si-jong's poetry. Including works such as Kiki Insho, Gwangju Shihen, Ikaino Shishu, and Niigata, it presents the history of Koreans in Japan and the tension of writing poetry in Japanese across a long span of time.

A collected volume that spreads the history of Koreans in Japan and the tension of Japanese-language poetry into a single poetic field.

893 pages
poetryKoreans in Japanhistory
坂本つや子 さかもと つやこ award

黄土の風 by 坂本つや子 is a prize-recognized work. 土地の色や風の感触を通して、生活史と身体感覚を描く詩集。社会の記憶と個人の声が重なり、乾いた風景の中に強い抒情が立ち上がる。

黄土の風 shows the central qualities of 坂本つや子.

award-recognized workliterary expressionmemory and relationships
Koda Shirō こうだ しろう award

大手が来る is an award-winning work by 甲田四郎. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

大手が来る, an award-winning work by 甲田四郎.

96 pages
award-winning workliterature
弓田弓子 ゆみだ ゆみこ award

大連 is an award-winning work by 弓田弓子. Using the people, places, or events suggested by its title as a point of entry, it presents human choices and the atmosphere of its time through narrative, criticism, or documentary inquiry.

大連 brings together the concerns of its period and the author's particular way of seeing.

time and the individualmemorysocietyhuman relationships
加藤文雄 かとう ふみお award

南部めくら暦 by 加藤文雄 is a poetic work that gives rhythm to memory, place, and lived experience. As an award-winning work, it is framed around the concerns suggested by its title and leaves a quiet afterimage for the reader.

南部めくら暦 layers people, time, and place behind the force of its compact title.

placememorylanguageprayer
岩淵欽哉 いわぶち きんや award

サバイバルゲーム is a poetry collection by 岩淵欽哉 and a winner of 小熊秀雄賞.

サバイバルゲーム is an essential work in the award history of 岩淵欽哉.

poetrylanguagelyricism
藤本瑝 ふじもと ひかる award

An award-winning poetry collection. Its abstract title, meaning something that is not clothing, opens a sharp exploration of body, existence, and the texture of language.

An award-winning poetry collection.

poetrybodyexistencelanguage
山本耕一路 やまもと こういちろ award

山本耕一路全詩集 is an award-winning work by 山本耕一路. It presents its subject through careful attention to setting, character choices, and historical or emotional context.

An award-winning work that invites readers into the world of 山本耕一路全詩集.

482 pages
award-winning worktime and memorycharacter study
大谷従二 おおたに じゅうじ award

朽ちゆく花々 is a 詩集 by 大谷十糸子. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

朽ちゆく花々 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

memoryfamilyhistorical momentselfhood
Machiko Kishimoto きしもと まちこ award

コザ中の町ブルース is a 詩集 by 岸本マチ子. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

コザ中の町ブルース quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

memoryfamilyhistorical momentselfhood
大崎二郎 おおさき じろう award

A poetry collection that layers the sensation of a running body with life rooted in place, turning the atmosphere of its time into poetic rhythm. Physical immediacy and social awareness stand side by side.

走り者 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 労働.

poetryHokkaidolabor
Abe Iwao あべ いわお award

不羈者 is a work by 阿部岩夫 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

不羈者 by 阿部岩夫 remains associated with its award recognition.

award-winning work1980s literatureauthorial themes
和田英子 わだ えいこ award

点景 is a work by 和田英子 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

点景 by 和田英子 remains associated with its award recognition.

102 pages
award-winning work1980s literatureauthorial themes
佐合五十鈴 さごう いすず award

A poetry collection by Isuzu Sago. Within the postwar regional poetry current, it is read as a work that looks at the feeling of life from an unsettled place, at renunciation, and at the weight of time.

A collection that draws out the feel of a moment of life and renunciation from a provisional place.

103 pages
modern poetrypostwar poetryGifu poetsa moment of liferenunciation
米屋猛 よねや たけし award

Kakei is Takeshi Yoneya's first poetry collection, excavating the everyday sensibility, blood ties, and memories of land rooted in Oga, Akita, through language with a strong sense of velocity. Rather than confining family and hometown to folkloric darkness, it raises voices from the northern landscape by crossing love and pain, names from daily life, and bodily sensation.

A poetry collection that inscribes blood ties and memories of place through the names and bodily velocity of northern life.

modern poetryAkitaOgablood tiesmemory of placenames from daily life
石毛拓郎 いしげ たくろう award

笑いと身体 is a 文学作品 work by 石毛拓郎, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 石毛拓郎's perspective.

memory of an erahuman observationsociety and the individual
うちだ優 うちだ ゆう award

As the title suggests, this poetry collection follows the feeling of living between settlement and wandering. The unease of staying in a place without fully taking root appears in tense, compressed lines.

A body in a temporary dwelling looks at the gap between place and memory.

120 pages
poetrydriftingmemory of place
Tomoko Fukunaka ふくなか みやこ award

A collected volume of Miyako Fukunaka’s poetry, bringing together bodily perception, everyday life, and postwar lyricism. It gives language to personal history and the pain of an era.

One poet’s voice resounds across daily life and the wounds of the age.

300 pages
collected poemswomen’s poetrypostwar poetry

A poetry collection that tries to hear the voices of land, body, and memory in silent stone. Its spare language contains a sense of resistance and prayer.

石の歌 reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 津坂治男.

stonememoryprayer

A poetry collection that draws pain, memory, and prayer from small bundles found in everyday life. Through ordinary language, it quietly connects social shadow with personal feeling.

市井の包み reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 沢田敏子.

109 pages
everyday lifeprayersocial shadow

Kikyo Techo is a poetry collection by Fumio Kataoka, viewing homecoming through memory of place, bodily feeling, and layered time.

Feelings around a place of return quietly accumulate as poetic language.

167 pages
poetryhomecomingplacememory
小松郁子 honorable mention

Facing the Courtyard is a poetry collection by Ikuko Komatsu. Through the image of an inward-opening courtyard, it shapes private space, silence, and the movement of the gaze in poetic language.

A gaze toward the courtyard evokes inner quiet and tension.

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江原光太 honorable mention

Stammering Humming is Kota Ehara’s poetry collection. It turns the bodily feeling of language that does not move smoothly and a song that never fully becomes voice into poetic subject matter, giving the work a strong individuality.

A halted voice and a hummed tune rise as poetic rhythm.

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Taro Kosaka award

北の儀式 is a poetry collection by 小坂太郎. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

北の儀式 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context

杉の村の物語 is a poetry collection by 西岡寿美子. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

杉の村の物語 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
川口昌男 award

海の群列 is a poetry collection by 川口昌男. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

海の群列 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context

北方砂漠 is a 作品 by 川田靖子. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.

北方砂漠 conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.

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小野連司 award

鰻屋闇物語 by 小野連司 was recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.

鰻屋闇物語 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

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ちひろなおみ ちひろなおみ associate prize

灯台 by ちひろなおみ was recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.

灯台 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

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江原光太 associate prize

穴 by 江原光太 was recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.

穴 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

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萩原貢 award

悪い夏 is a work by 萩原貢 recognized by the oguma-hideo-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

悪い夏, a work recognized by the oguma-hideo-award.

award-winning workliterary prizepublication status

詩法―ベトナム反戦と愛の詩集 by 友田多喜雄 was recognized by the 小熊秀雄賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.

詩法―ベトナム反戦と愛の詩集 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

award-winning workliteraturework
Kareki Torao award

A poetry collection that places feelings of resistance and solitude in the image of a sharp-eyed bird. It also resonates with the poetic climate of Hokkaido and is driven by strong imagery.

鷲 is a work in which a poetry collection that places feelings of resistance and solitude in the image of a sharp-eyed bird.

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