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Ono City Poetry and Song Literary Award

おのししいかぶんがくしょう

A literary award sponsored by Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture, that recognizes outstanding works from poetry and song collections published in the previous year.

短歌俳句
Established
2009
Organizer
Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture
Category
Literature and General Literary Arts
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around April
Status
Active

Description

Established in 2009 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of tanka poet Ueda Sanashi from Ono City. Selects winners in three categories: tanka, haiku, and poetry, awarding the main prize and a special prize of 1 million yen. The selection is conducted by three judges referencing questionnaires sent to tanka and haiku poets nationwide. Winning works are announced around April, and the award ceremony is held around June.

Prize

Main Prize
Main Prize
Cash Prize
1,000,000 JPY
  • Special Prize

Selection

Selection Process

Preliminary Selection
Judges Questionnaire to tanka poets and haiku poets nationwide
Announcement Final candidates selected
Final Selection
Judges Three judges
Announcement Winners determined - announced around April

Official Resources

https://www.city.ono.hyogo.jp/soshikikarasagasu/kyoikuiinkai_kyoikukanribu_ikiikishakaisozoka/gyomuannai/5/1/index.html

Past Winners

黒木三千代 くろき みちよ award
Kazuhiro Nakamura なかむら かずひろ award
Sumiko Ikeda いけだ すみこ award
Takahiro Otsuji おおつじ たかひろ award

A tanka collection that gathers the days of 2021 into a single volume as a tanka diary. Built on a year of serialized entries, it looks again at the details of everyday life through tanka.

It carefully captures the small tremors of a year in tanka.

390 pages
daily recordtanka diaryseasonseveryday lifesequence of poems
Ogawa Keishu おがわ けいしゅう award

A haiku collection that receives everyday events and chance encounters through an expansive gaze. As the title suggests, it carries a sense of opening beyond the quiet contours of ordinary days.

An unremarkable instant turns into something boundless.

195 pages
haikueveryday lifechancenegative spaceexpanse
Takako Hidaka ひだか たかこ award

A tanka collection by Hidaka Takako. It layers concrete scenes of trees, flowers, and insects with impressions from a photo collection of Buddhist statues and the image of her mother.

A tanka collection where memory becomes visible through natural forms.

279 pages
tankanaturememorymotherBuddhist images
Hiromi Inoue いのうえ ひろみ award

A haiku collection by Inoue Hiromi. Centered on Kyoto's seasonal observances, it carefully captures the four seasons across Japan and appears as her first new collection in 13 years.

A collection where Kyoto's observances and the seasons quietly come into view.

204 pages
haikuKyotoseasonsseasonal observancesfestivals
Shuzo Shimada しまだ しゅうぞう award

A ninth tanka collection containing 493 poems written from 2017 to 2020. Memory and time that were nearly lost rise vividly again within the poems.

Memory and time that were nearly lost are restored within the poems.

212 pages
memorytimeautumndaily lifetanka
Etsuko Oishi おおいし えつこ award

The sixth haiku collection by Oishi Etsuko. It gathers 357 poems written from 2012 through April 2019, shaping everyday scenery through birdsong and seasonal atmosphere.

A collection in which birdsong sharpens the outlines of the seasons.

232 pages
haikubirdsseasonsnatureeveryday life
Oguchi Reiko おおぐち れいこ award

A sixth tanka collection that uses the Italian reading of Francis Xavier, 'Zaberio', as its title and rereads the world by moving between faith, history, and the perspectives of mother and child.

Faith and history are revisited through the eyes of a child.

166 pages
faithhistorymother and childmemoryre-reading
原満三寿 award

A sixth haiku collection that captures many aspects of wind and builds each poem from both fierceness and softness. It also includes elegiac poems.

A set of poems that captures wind from many angles and extends it into a spiritual landscape.

137 pages
windmourningspiritual landscapehaikumemory
Kyoko Kuriki くりき きょうこ award

This tanka collection summons everyday feelings and memories through a condensed poetic form. As the afterword suggests, love, surprise, loneliness, grief, and nostalgia appear in varied shapes.

The genie of the lamp offers emotions in the form of tanka.

190 pages
tankaemotional memoryeveryday lifecontemporary poetry collection
Kazumi Okada おかだ かずみ award

This haiku collection gives each brief poem the force of a world appearing at once. Around memory, marshland, and place, it opens wide landscapes and time within a short form.

From the marsh of memory, worlds of haiku emerge.

160 pages
haikumemoryplacecondensed language
Satoko Kawano かわの さとこ award

This work is introduced as: 東日本大震災、老母、島の記憶などを含む歌集。短歌同士の関係が重層的な読後感を生む。

A work centered on 硝子のような記憶の島に、震災後の時間が映る。

memorycommunityself-discovery
Michiko Kai かい みちこ award

This work is introduced as: 北海道の風土、母の死、震災後の時間を背景にした第三句集。自然の感触と生活の細部が鋭く結びつく。

A work centered on 海と陸、遺品と季語が、句の中で静かに響き合う。

174 pages
memorycommunityself-discovery
Hiroshi Yoshikawa よしかわ ひろし award

鳥の見しもの is an award-recognized work by 吉川宏志. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
Ibaraki Kazuo いばらき かずお award

熊樫 is an award-recognized work by 茨木和生. A reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection edition could not be confirmed, so it should be treated as a periodical or submitted work at the time of the award.

No standalone book edition was confirmed, so identifiers from magazines or award materials were not used.

award-recognized workno confirmed book editionliterary award
Chikako Yonekawa よねかわ ちかこ award

吹雪の水族館 is an award-recognized work by Chikako Yonekawa. 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.

吹雪の水族館 is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

literatureaward-winning workpublication check
Kazuko Nishimura にしむら かずこ award

椅子ひとつ is an award-recognized work by Kazuko Nishimura. 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.

椅子ひとつ is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

literatureaward-winning workpublication check
Shuichi Sakai さかい しゅういち award

亀のピカソ:短歌日記2013 is an award-recognized work by 坂井修一. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

亀のピカソ:短歌日記2013, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

award-recognized workbibliographic recordpeople and society
Akira Ohmine おおみね あきら award

短夜 is an award-recognized work by 大峯あきら. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

短夜, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

award-recognized workbibliographic recordpeople and society
Yukari Kojima こじま ゆかり award

純白光:短歌日記2012 is an award-winning work by 小島ゆかり recognized by the 小野市詩歌文学賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.

純白光:短歌日記2012 by 小島ゆかり was recognized by the 小野市詩歌文学賞.

382 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic record
Mutsuo Takano たかの むつお award

萬の翅 is an award-winning work by 高野ムツオ recognized by the 小野市詩歌文学賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.

萬の翅 by 高野ムツオ was recognized by the 小野市詩歌文学賞.

203 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic record
Kimihiko Takano たかの きみひこ award

河骨川 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 河骨川 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

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Ito Kazuhiko いとう かずひこ award

待ち時間 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 待ち時間 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

award-winning workbibliographic verificationliterary award
Tomooka Shigou ともおか しごう award

黙礼 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 黙礼 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

award-winning workbibliographic verificationliterary award
Takako Hanayama はなやま たかこ award

Kyuurigusa is Takako Hanayama's eighth tanka collection. It catches plants, birds, and shifts in everyday atmosphere with fine-grained attention, bringing fragments of contemporary daily life into sharp relief.

A tanka collection in which flowers, weeds, and the edges of daily life reveal the texture of contemporary living.

248 pages
tankadaily lifeplantsfamilyseasons
Kobiyama Shigeko こびやま しげこ award

Zaga Ruten is Shigeko Kobiyama's seventh haiku collection. Following Ryusui, it gathers poems from 2005 through mid-2011, capturing small movements in nature and the flow of time through compressed haiku language.

From six and a half years of haiku, clouds, snow, and the wrinkles of walnuts are shaped into a quiet current of time.

211 pages
haikunaturetimememoryseasons
Takako Misaki みさき たかこ award

Shizuka ni, Kowareteiru Niwa is Takako Misaki's fourth poetry collection. It follows places, voices, and bodily sensations that remain even after damage, quietly sounding the weight of small existences.

A low, persistent voice holds to the feeling that, even if broken, this remains our place.

131 pages
poetryplacelossbodysmall voices
Hikaru Koike こいけ ひかる award

山鳩集 is a 歌集 by 小池光. 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.

山鳩集 presents 小池光's work in the form of 歌集.

373 pages
literary award workmemoryhuman experience
Hatta Kogarashi はった こがれ award

鏡騒 is a 句集 by 八田木枯. 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.

鏡騒 presents 八田木枯's work in the form of 句集.

200 pages
literary award workmemoryhuman experience
Ruriko Mizuno みずの るりこ award

ユニコーンの夜に is a 詩集 by 水野るり子. 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.

ユニコーンの夜に presents 水野るり子's work in the form of 詩集.

102 pages
literary award workmemoryhuman experience
Yuko Kawano こうの ゆうこ award

Ashifune is Yuko Kawano’s fourteenth tanka collection, written as she continued composing while facing illness. Its poems look at family, the body, and seasonal change, conveying a strength that refuses to let go of life even as death approaches.

In days lived alongside illness, poems of family and seasons give off quiet strength.

212 pages
illness and lifefamilytankaseasons
Tota Kaneko かねこ とうた award

Nichijo is a haiku collection in which Tota Kaneko draws moments from ordinary life through a long practice of haiku. Carrying broad thought and postwar experience, its language rooted in daily scenes shows the freedom and depth of old age.

Haiku drawn from ordinary scenes convey the free breathing and deep time of old age.

229 pages
ordinary lifehaikuold agepostwar memory
Niremiko Yamamoto やまもと にれみこ award

Mori e Iku Michi is a poetry collection in which memory and language waver like a path leading into a forest. Voices that seem to be heard, leaves, flowers, and small memories begin to move as if only to vanish again.

Small memories tremble on the road into the forest and begin to run once more.

141 pages
memoryforestvoicethings vanishing
Takashi Okai おかい たかし award

“ネフスキイ” is a 2009 award-winning work by 岡井隆. 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.

“ネフスキイ” is an important work in the record of 岡井隆’s award recognition.

award-winning workcontemporary literature2009
Naoto Hirose ひろせ なおと award

“風の空” is a 2009 award-winning work by 広瀬直人. 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.

“風の空” is an important work in the record of 広瀬直人’s award recognition.

award-winning workcontemporary literature2009
Mitsui Yoko みつい ようこ award

“句まじり詩集 花” is a 2009 award-winning work by 三井葉子. 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.

“句まじり詩集 花” is an important work in the record of 三井葉子’s award recognition.

award-winning workcontemporary literature2009