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Ono Tozaburo Award おのとおざぶろうしょう

Edition 26 (2024)

Poetry collectionPoetry criticism book

Winners

2 people
和田まさ子 わだ まさこ award

A poetry collection that follows the feelings and scenes encountered while walking through the city, pausing, and living among others. Through bridges, corridors, and memories of language, it quietly gathers small joys and the fluctuations of being alive.

Walking through the city, stumbling, and living among the world.

104 pages
urban landscapeseveryday discoveriesmemory of languagejoy and solitude
安智史 やす ともふみ award

A collection of criticism centered on Hagiwara Sakutaro, tracing his connections with Edogawa Rampo, Maruyama Kaoru, Nakahara Chuya, the Shiki school, and the popular-poetry movement. Through the workings of poetic language, it examines the intersections of modern Japanese poetry and literature from multiple perspectives.

A work of poetic criticism that reads the lineages formed by Sakutaro and his contemporaries.

564 pages
Hagiwara Sakutaromodern poetrypoetic languagemodern Japanese literaturehistory of poetry