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Shiika Bungakukan Prize しいかぶんがくかんしょう

Edition 40 (2025)

PoetryTankaHaiku

Winners

3 people
Taichi Nakao なかお たいち award

From Timberland is a long sequence of poems that follows figures moving through a ravaged world and the presences gathering in a "house of poetry." Touching on loss and anxiety, it traces a will to reach toward others and the future through language.

A long sequence of poems that passes through an inexpressible darkness and heads into the predawn wilderness by the light within.

128 pages
Loss and memoryLanguage and poetic creationAn age of anxietyA will toward the future
中根誠 なかね まこと award

Makoto Nakane's sixth tanka collection brings together 489 poems written over the five years from 2019 through the end of 2023. Through scenes of birds in flight and song, it traces Ibaraki's natural world, everyday life, and a quiet prayer for human endeavor.

A tanka collection that contemplates nature and daily life alongside the flight and calls of birds.

300 pages
tankabirdsnatureIbarakieveryday lifeprayer
Kazuhiro Nakamura なかむら かずひろ award

Kazuhiro Nakamura's fourth haiku collection. It observes nonhuman presences, including animals, plants, and inanimate objects, in sharply focused poems. It received the Haiku Division prize at the 40th Shika Literary Museum Award.

A haiku collection that looks closely at presences beyond the human sphere.

166 pages
haikunatureflora and faunanonhuman lifeobservation