Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう
Edition 28 (2013)
Winners
3 peopleJazz Age is an original poetry collection by Tetsuo Nakagami. Against the speed, city feeling, and improvisational quality suggested by jazz, it lets the noise of an era and an individual voice sound as poetic rhythm.
The rhythm of jazz sounds together the voice of an era and the voice of the individual.
Water Flowers is a tanka collection by Masako Amemiya. Centered on images of water and flowers, it quietly observes aging, memory, and seasonal change, catching inner tremors in the form of tanka.
Like flowers opening on water, memory and season tremble within the tanka.
A haiku collection by Akito Arima. Drawing on his long life as a physicist and educator, it distills nature, travel, memory, and a cosmic perspective into finely controlled verse.
This collection lets scientific and poetic vision meet, opening everyday scenes onto a larger flow of time.