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Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう

Edition 24 (2009)

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Winners

3 people
Hiroshi Nagata ながた ひろし poetry

A poetry collection by Hiroshi Osada built around books from many times and places. Through twenty-five poems about twenty-five books, it explores how reading changes memory, one's gaze toward the world, and the texture of language.

A quiet poetic illumination of the happiness of those who read books.

112 pages
readingpoetrymemoryclassics
Hashimoto Yoshinori はしもと よしのり tanka

A tanka collection by Yoshinori Hashimoto. Centered on memories of the mother and a sense of loss, it captures aging, family, and the details of daily life through the compressed language of tanka.

A tanka collection that engraves the passage of life while gazing at the image of the mother.

228 pages
tankamotheragingmemory
Tomoooka Shikyo ともおか しごう haiku

A collected haiku volume covering more than half a century of Shikyo Tomooka's work. Including published collections and previously unpublished poems, it lets readers follow reflections on nature, life, and human existence across a long span of time.

More than half a century of haiku forms a broad current of poems about nature and life.

573 pages
haikunaturelifecollected work