Ono Tozaburo Award おのとおざぶろうしょう
Edition 12 (2010)
Winners
2 peopleSeiten no Mukogawa is a poetry collection that begins from the image of flowers beyond a far blue sky and looks at living while carrying what has been lost. Through coexistence with silent beings, femininity and memory gather into a concentrated point.
The hint of flowers beyond the blue sky guides a poetic voice carrying life and loss.
Sanjo no Kumo is a critical set of notes tracing Kobe modernism and the memory of a port city. Through the Kobe poets incident, literary magazines, and time before, during, and after the war, it excavates urban cultural history from private memory and concern over vanishing materials.
The book follows memories of poetry and magazines in Kobe, uncovering the modernism of a port city.