Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう
Edition 24 (2009)
Winners
3 peopleA 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.
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.
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 Including published collections and previously unpublished poems, it lets readers follow reflections on nature, life, and human existence across a long span of time.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.