Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう
Edition 19 (2004)
PoetryTankaHaiku
Winners
3 peopleMotoo Ando's poetry collection turns around the land and memory of Normandy. Through travel and foreign landscapes, it quietly observes personal time, defeat, and the persistence of words.
A foreign landscape reflects the poet's own time.
poetry collectionNormandytravelmemorymodern poetry
Kimie Yamanoi's tanka collection layers slight shifts in everyday life and sensations left in the body into poems that are gentle yet firm.
In a single falling moment, the deep presence of daily life resides.
215 pages
tankapoetry collectioneveryday lifebodyliving
Toge Morita's haiku collection condenses time, place, and the feeling of age into the brief haiku form through cliffs, plants, and natural images.
On a cliff tangled with kudzu, the weight of season and time seeps through.
haikuhaiku collectionnatureagingseason