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New Haiku Poets Federation Prize - Haiku Works Division

The haiku works division of Shin Haikujin Renmei's award recognizing distinguished haiku writers.

haikuhaiku works divisionHaiku
Established
1972
Organizer
Shin Haikujin Renmei
Category
Haiku and Haikai
Selection Method
Selection
Target
Open
Frequency
1 per year
Application Deadline
around September–December
Status
Active

Description

The haiku works division of the New Haiku Poets Federation Prize, established in 1972. It is a public haiku prize open to members and non-members. The criticism division is managed separately as the New Haiku Poets Federation Criticism Award.

Related Awards

  • New Haiku Poets Federation Criticism Prize

Official Resources

https://sites.google.com/haikujin-since1946.com/home

Past Winners

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三井淳一 みつい じゅんいち award

A prize-recognized work by Junichi Mitsui, shaped around bodily perception and the tension of language in compact poetic form.

泌尿器 is a work by 三井淳一 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.

bodily perceptionaward-recognized workbibliographic check
No winner
No winner
万葉太郎 まんよう たろう award

壊滅地帯 is a work by 万葉太郎. Award records show that the premise and conception were central to its recognition.

壊滅地帯 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

award entryuncollected workoriginal premise
谷川彰啓 たにかわ あきひろ award

日出生台 is a work by 谷川彰浩. Award records show that the premise and conception were central to its recognition.

日出生台 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

award entryuncollected workoriginal premise
権藤義隆 ごんどう よしたか award

A haiku collection by Yoshitaka Gondo, condensing the feel of daily life and a social gaze into hard-edged seasonal words and brief poetic form.

The feel of daily life and a gaze toward the times meet within brief haiku.

haikudaily lifesocial haikuseasonal wordsmodern haiku
渡辺をさむ わたなべ をさむ award

A haiku collection by Osamu Watanabe. Against the antiwar awareness suggested by its title, it connects everyday scenes with responses to society in the short breath of haiku.

The thought of antiwar is quietly placed between daily scenery and words.

haikuantiwarsocial haikudaily lifemodern haiku
南卓志 みなみ たくし award

A haiku collection by Takuji Minami. Beginning from the seasonal feeling of green wheat, it depicts nature, labor, and the time of daily living in concise modern haiku language.

In the season of greening wheat, the time of living and labor comes into view.

haikuseasonlabornaturedaily life
かわにし雄策 かわにし ゆうさく award

暖流の幅 is a work by かわにし雄策. It approaches its subject through haiku, seasons, and its award recognition reflects the force and focus of its language.

暖流の幅 condenses its central concerns into a compact, memorable literary form.

haikuseasonseveryday perception
市川花風 いちかわ かふう award

十二月八日 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time. Fragments of daily life connect to deep inner movement.

十二月八日 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time.

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伊東健二 いとう けんじ award

唇の微熱 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time. Fragments of daily life connect to deep inner movement.

唇の微熱 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time.

poetrymemorytimebody
No winner
後藤蕪村 ごとう ぶそん award

戦傷 is a work by 後藤蕪村. It is presented here as an award-recognized work, with publication identifiers checked against book sources where available.

戦傷, a work by 後藤蕪村.

award-recognized workcontemporary literature
No winner
No winner
佐藤秀子 さとう ひでこ award

A haiku collection by Hideko Sato recognized by the New Haiku Poets Association award. As the title suggests, it carries a sense of setting out, placing lived experience and a social gaze into the brief form of haiku.

The collection inscribes signs of departure seen from everyday life into a brief poetic form.

haikueveryday lifedeparturesocietynew haiku
田島一彦 たじま かずひこ award

Set in a mountain valley that evokes a village shaped by revolt, Ikki-dani brings local memory and the atmosphere of resistance into compact poetic form. Against the history of a community, it considers the weight of speaking out and remaining silent.

The valley's memory recalls quiet anger and the texture of everyday life.

haikulocal memoryresistancecommunity
飯田史朗 いいだ しろう award

A haiku collection that receives the contemporary pain surrounding Afghanistan in a brief poetic form. It draws events from a distant battlefield into immediate perception.

The present of distant Afghanistan presses close within brief haiku.

haikuAfghanistanwarcontemporaneity
吉平たもつ きっぺい たもつ award

A haiku collection with a title that foregrounds bodily perception. From the familiar image of fingers arise labor, aging, touch, and memories of daily life.

A single finger begins to speak of the texture of life and the traces of time.

haikubodydaily lifeaging
No winner
Masahide Okazaki おかざき ますひで award

青い閃光 is a work by 岡崎万寿秀. 鮮烈な色彩感覚と瞬間の印象を重んじる俳句作品。自然や社会の断片を、鋭い光のように短い形式へ収めます。

青い閃光 centers on 俳句 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.

俳句色彩瞬間
No winner
須田紅楓 すだ こうふう award

清掃工場から is a work by 須田紅楓. It was recognized by the shin haiku jin renmei sho in 1998.

No winner
丸山美沙夫 まるやま みさお award

沖縄の拳 is a haiku work by 丸山美沙夫. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.

沖縄の拳 reflects 丸山美沙夫's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.

haikuseasonal imageryviews of nature
成清正之 なりきよ まさゆき award

崩壊 is a 句集または俳句関連作品 by 成清正之. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.

A work that conveys 成清正之's style through the world suggested by the title 崩壊.

句集または俳句関連作品award-recognized work1995
鈴木映 すずき えい award

舞鶴湾 is a 句集または俳句関連作品 by 鈴木映. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.

A work that conveys 鈴木映's style through the world suggested by the title 舞鶴湾.

句集または俳句関連作品award-recognized work1995
Hiroshi Kudo くどう ひろし award

A haiku collection that condenses the climate and life of the Tohoku region into brief, resonant poems.

東北 uses 俳句 as an entry point into human emotion.

俳句東北土地生活
Shigeyoshi Nakamura なかむら しげよし award

A haiku collection that uses the dissonance of a cold summer to evoke unease, place, and memory.

さむい夏 uses 俳句 as an entry point into human emotion.

俳句不安季節
No winner
森洋 もり ひろし award

A haiku collection by Hiroshi Mori. Its title, combining fixed time and ten fingers, suggests a poetics that links labor, everyday time, and bodily sensation.

Working time and bodily sensation are held within the small vessel of haiku.

haikulabordaily lifebody
No winner
吉田海 よしだ かい award

声のなか is an award-winning work by 吉田海. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

声のなか, an award-winning work by 吉田海.

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粥川青猿 かゆかわ せいえん award

方形の原野 is a 句集 by 粥川青猿. Recognized by the award, it centers on the scene or relationship suggested by its title and draws the reader into memory, place, and the atmosphere of its time.

As an award-recognized work, 方形の原野 leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

award-recognized work句集memoryperiod atmosphere
No winner
畑晩菁 はた ばんせい award

非核都市 is a poetry collection by 畑晩菁 and a winner of 新俳句人連盟賞 俳句作品部門.

非核都市 is an essential work in the award history of 畑晩菁.

poetrylanguagelyricism
佐藤凍虹 さとう とうこう award

A haiku collection by Onifusa Sato. His poems carry the climate of Tohoku, labor, and the shadows after war, rising in language that combines roughness with lyric force.

Bearing Tohoku soil and memory, the haiku leave a dense tactile sense of life.

haikuTohokulaborpostwar memoryrootedness in place
鈴木節子 すずき せつこ award

A haiku collection by Setsuko Suzuki. Under a title that evokes summer seashores, it appears to condense seasonal touch, shadows of daily life, and a woman’s bodily sensibility into brief haiku form.

A haiku collection that draws summer light and the presence of the sea from within everyday life.

haikusummerseashoreeveryday lifewomen’s haiku
No winner
坪田和夫 つぼた かずお award

薔薇くちびる is a prize-winning work shaped by its subject matter and the author's point of view. Through the people, places, events, or memories suggested by the title, it conveys the atmosphere of its time and the tensions of human relationships.

薔薇くちびる draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

award-winning workhuman relationshipsperiod atmospherememorysociety
田中千恵子 たなか ちえこ award

A haiku collection that embraces emotional tremors hidden in daily life. Bodily sensation and seasonal presence overlap, leaving an intimate aftertaste in brief language.

抱擁 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 生活.

haikubodily perceptiondaily life
石川貞夫 いしかわ さだお award

雑唱 is a work by 石川貞夫 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

雑唱 by 石川貞夫 remains associated with its award recognition.

award-winning work1980s literatureauthorial themes
Hiromu Matsuda まつだ ひろむ award

Futo is a linked sequence of haiku by Hiromu Matsuda, expressing a modern haiku sensibility through the feeling of standing at the edge of the city and the harbor. Against a background of labor, movement, and seaside air, it compresses socially charged landscapes into a brief poetic form.

From a viewpoint at the edge of the harbor, the sequence condenses the city, labor, and the sea into haiku.

modern haikuwharfharborlaborurban landscape
吉武夏江 よしたけ なつえ award

Natsue Yoshitake's haiku work Winter to Autumn starts from the movement of seasons and layers everyday texture with the social gaze of modern haiku. Its title, which seems to move backward from winter to autumn, invites a reading through layers of memory and time.

Within a title that shifts the order of the seasons lies a haiku sense of time that looks closely at life and memory.

modern haikuseasonseveryday sensibilitymemorysocial awareness
Taniyama Kaen たにやま かえん award

昭和末代 is a 文学作品 work by 谷山花猿, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 谷山花猿's perspective.

memory of an erahuman observationsociety and the individual
Itagaki Yoshiki いたがき よしき award

A haiku collection that condenses feelings for family and kin into brief poetic form. Everyday flowers and seasonal changes carry solidarity with, and sorrow for, those close at hand.

The image of flowers quietly carries feelings for those close to the poet.

120 pages
haikufamilyseasons
えつぐ・まもる えつぐ・まもる award

A haiku collection set against harbor scenes and summer light, enclosing labor, travel, and parting in compact verse. The open space of the wharf reflects movement and anchorage in life.

On a summer wharf, a moving life and lingering feelings cross.

120 pages
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Takeshi Mochizuki もちづき たけし award

A haiku work by Takeshi Mochizuki. It layers the seasonality of winter with the distance of the constellations, placing small scenes of daily life within quiet tension.

The distance of winter stars sharpens the contours of ordinary life.

winterconstellationspoetry of daily lifequiet lyricism
渡辺知秋 わたなべ ちあき award

A haiku work by Chiaki Watanabe. It turns to Sanya, an urban district of labor and precarious life, drawing social reality into the compressed form of haiku.

Voices from an urban margin continue to resonate quietly within short verses.

Sanyalaborurban lifesocial consciousness
二見杏路 ふたみ あんじろ award

Straw can be read as a haiku collection that condenses the texture of daily life and seasonal change into the brevity of haiku. The plain material quality of its title evokes rural time and human labor.

A haiku collection that draws out the atmosphere of life and the seasons from the familiar material of straw.

haikueveryday textureseasonsrural sensibility
No winner
野ざらし延男 のざらし のぶお award

吐血の水溜り is a haiku collection by 野ざらし延男. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

吐血の水溜り captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
松本円平 まつもと えんぺい award

一打黄葉 is a haiku collection by 松本円平. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

一打黄葉 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
森下草城子 もりした そうじょうこ award

紙の船 is a haiku collection by 森下草城子. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

紙の船 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context