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.
- 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
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary Selection | Questionnaire to tanka poets and haiku poets nationwide | — | Final candidates selected |
| Final Selection | Three judges | — | Winners determined - announced around April |
Official Resources
https://www.city.ono.hyogo.jp/soshikikarasagasu/kyoikuiinkai_kyoikukanribu_ikiikishakaisozoka/gyomuannai/5/1/index.htmlPast Winners
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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。
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。
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
“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.