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Takami Jun Award

たかみじゅんしょう

A literary award presented annually to outstanding poets

Poetry
Established
1971
Organizer
Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Takami Jun Literature Promotion Association
Category
Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around January
Status
Ended

Description

The Takami Jun Award is sponsored by the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Takami Jun Literature Promotion Association, targeting poetry works published from December 1 each year to November 30 of the following year, with selections made and announced in January of the following year. It concluded after 50 editions.

Selection

Selection Process

Selection Committee
Judges Amazawa Daijirō, Takahashi Mutsumarō, Koike Masayo, Itō Hiyomi, Matsuura Hisaki (2018)
Announcement Announced every January

Official Resources

http://www016.upp.so-net.ne.jp/takami/

Past Winners

Mitsuru Eshiro えだい みつる award

切抜帳 is an award-winning work by 江代充. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

切抜帳 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

117 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturememorysocietyexpression
Jiro Tokisato ときさと じろう award

This poetry collection circles an island where discarded dolls and androids spend their remaining days, layering past and future, body and language, memory and voice. The island becomes a topography through which language is formed and transformed.

Following the presence of an unseen island, the poems lead readers to a place where language loosens and is tied together again.

139 pages
islandandroidstopography of languagememorytransformation
Hidemichi Sadahisa さだひさ ひでき award

A poetry collection that approaches the unseen through the visible, centered on an experiment in sketching from life.

A poetry collection that approaches the unseen through the visible, centered on an experiment in sketching from life.

105 pages
現代詩写生知覚
Emiko Saito さいとう えみこ award

空閑風景 is an award-winning work by 齋藤恵美子. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

空閑風景 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

102 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturememorysocietyexpression
Toriko Takarabe たからべ とりこ award

氷菓とカンタータ is an award-recognized work by 財部鳥子. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

氷菓とカンタータ is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

literaturelifememory
Harumi Kawaguchi かわぐち はるみ award

Tiger is here. is an award-recognized work by 川口晴美. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

Tiger is here. is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

literaturelifememory
Maiko Sugimoto すぎもと まいこ award

裾花 is a work by 杉本真維子 associated with the 高見順賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

裾花 by 杉本真維子 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

award-recognized workpersonal choicessociety and memory
Fuminori Yoshida よしだ ふみのり award

A poetry collection by Fuminori Yoshida, contemplating birth, beginnings of existence, and the making of language with quiet tension.

生誕 is a work by 吉田文憲 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.

115 pages
birth and poetryaward-recognized workbibliographic check
Mieko Kawakami かわかみ みえこ award

水瓶 is a 受賞作 by 川上 未映子 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for 水瓶, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

173 pages
award-winning work受賞作2013
Yo Henmi へんみ よう award

眼の海 is an award-winning work by 辺見庸. Amazon JP, NDL, and related publisher records were checked, but no ISBN for a standalone book or paperback containing the work could be confirmed. Magazine and article identifiers were not reused.

眼の海, recorded as an award-winning work by 辺見庸.

award-winning workliteratureauthorial concern
Kim Sijong きむ しじょん award

失くした季節 is a work by 金 時鐘 recorded in the 2011-1 award data. A book-format record was confirmed, so its bibliographic data can be treated at the work level.

失くした季節 by 金 時鐘 is recorded here at the work level from the award record.

496 pages
poetrylanguagememory
Takashi Okai おかい たかし award

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.

110 pages
poetrycriticism
Masayuki Kishida きしだ まさゆき award

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.

79 pages
poetryloss
Hiroya Takagai たかがい ひろや award

子葉声韻 is a work by 高貝弘也. It approaches its subject through contemporary poetry, voice, and its award recognition reflects the force and focus of its language.

子葉声韻 condenses its central concerns into a compact, memorable literary form.

contemporary poetryvoiceemergence
Toru Kitagawa きたがわ とおる award

溶ける、目覚まし時計 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.

溶ける、目覚まし時計 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time.

143 pages
poetrymemorytimebody
Masato Inagawa いながわ かたひと award

聖-歌章 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.

聖-歌章 is a work of poetry that uses sound and silence to explore bodily feeling, memory, and unstable time.

121 pages
poetrymemorytimebody
Takako Misaki みさき たかこ award

A poetry collection in which body, memory, pain, and landscape gather around the place named in the title. Mizuki Misumi's urgent, sensory language catches the presence at the border of daily life and mortality.

From the landscape around the hospital, the pain and light of a living body rise into view.

103 pages
contemporary poetrybodily sensationlife and death
Hiromi Ito いとう ひろみ award

河原荒草 is a work by 伊藤比呂美. It was selected for the 高見順賞 in 2006.

A work by 伊藤比呂美 recognized by the 高見順賞.

高見順賞受賞
相澤啓三 あいざわ けいぞう award

A poetry collection by Keizo Aizawa. Through dense sensations and tropical, dreamlike imagery, it turns memory and bodily perception hidden in everyday life into poetry.

A ripe, fruit-like fantasy draws the reader into deeper layers of memory.

modern poetryfantasybodily perception
Akira Tatehata たてはた あきら award

A poetry collection by Akira Tatehata. With chilled sensations and sharp imagery, it probes solitude and the contours of language, carrying the structured gaze of an art critic.

Within a zero-degree sensibility, words rise like the shadow of a dog.

98 pages
modern poetrysolitudeimageryvisual sensibility
Tetsuo Nakagami なかがみ てつお award

A poetry collection that links everyday frustration and bodily feeling with the memory of Elvis’s death, turning ordinary unease into poetry.

エルヴィスが死んだ日の夜 distills the core of 中上哲夫's work into a story or line of thought that reaches the reader clearly.

85 pages
poetryeveryday lifemusicloss
ふじい さだかず award

Words as a Staff, Words as a Staff is a poetry collection by Sadakazu Fujii. Its gentle mode of address welcomes song into the present world, while its sense of the fragility and depth of Japanese traces the speed of the world.

A poetry collection in which fragile, deep Japanese reaches toward the speed of the world.

105 pages
modern poetryJapanese languagesongaddress
Shirouyasu Suzuki すずき しろうやす award

A modern poetry collection by Shiroyasu Suzuki, gathering poems written and published from 1996 to 2001. It explores the texture of language itself through bodily sensation and the small dislocations of everyday words.

胡桃ポインタ presents a concentrated view of 鈴木志郎康’s award-recognized work.

modern poetrybodily sensationeveryday languagelinguistic experiment
阿部日奈子 あべ ひなこ award

Hinako Abe’s poetry collection evokes a day drawn toward the sea while arranging relationships, memory, and forgiveness among women in precise language. Rather than direct confession, it creates movement through verbal placement and literary resonance.

海曜日の女たち presents a concentrated view of 阿部日奈子’s award-recognized work.

120 pages
poetrywomenseamemoryrelationships
田口犬男 たぐち いぬお award

This poetry collection builds an allegorical figure through language that crosses history and imagination. Beneath its militarized title, it sharply exposes gaps among power, the body, and words.

モー将軍 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 田口犬男.

93 pages
poetryallegorypowerbodyhistory
Masayo Koike こいけ まさよ award

もっとも官能的な部屋 is a literary work recognized in 2000. Centered on the image suggested by its title, it reflects the author’s concerns and the expressive climate of its time.

もっとも官能的な部屋 draws readers into its world through the resonance of its title.

literaturehuman relationshipsperiod atmosphere
Kiwao Nomura のむら きわお award

風の配分 is a literary work recognized in 2000. Centered on the image suggested by its title, it reflects the author’s concerns and the expressive climate of its time.

風の配分 draws readers into its world through the resonance of its title.

literaturehuman relationshipsperiod atmosphere
Tou Kazuko とう わこ award

記憶の川で is an award-winning work. This Takami Jun Award-winning poetry collection explores memory, time, and bodily feeling through poetic language.

記憶の川で presents its award-recognized themes and narrative voice with clarity.

award-winning workliterary prizehuman portrayal
Arakawa Yoji あらかわ ようじ award

渡世 is a work by 荒川洋治. It was recognized by the takami jun award in 1998.

Kazuko Shiraishi しらいし かずこ award

現れるものたちをして by Kazuko Shiraishi is a work associated with the Takami Jun Award. It builds its world around the impression suggested by the title, following human choices and the atmosphere of its time with a lingering aftertaste.

現れるものたちをして quietly conveys the core appeal that has kept it read as an award-recognized work.

103 pages
lifememorytime
Ikuo Seo せお いくお award

DEEP PURPLE is a literary work by 瀬尾育生. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.

DEEP PURPLE reflects 瀬尾育生's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.

relationshipsmemorythe mood of an era
Yoko Isaka いさか ようこ award

A poetry work that captures the sense of the earth gradually brightening through language. Through details of daily life and bodily perception, it depicts moments when the visible world changes.

A poetry work that captures the sense of the earth gradually brightening through language.

poetrydaily lifelightbodily perception
Kanako Yoshida よしだ かなこ award

定本-闇 is a work by 吉田加南子 and a recipient of the 高見順賞. It centers on personal experience, social atmosphere, memory, and changes in everyday life.

An award-recognized work by 吉田加南子.

229 pages
award-winning literaturecharacter portraittime and memory
Seiji Tsutsumi つじい たかし award

Gunjo, Waga Mokushi is a poetry collection that sinks postwar society and personal memory into images of blue, building a long-breathed response to history. It keeps thought and sensation together while drawing voices out of silence.

From memories submerged in blue, an apocalypse of the age and the self begins to rise.

156 pages
postwar memoryresponse to historypoetry and thought
Toyomi Arai あらい とよみ award

Night Fruit is a poetry collection about the place of the dead and the rhythm of words returning to this world. Night, body, prayer, and landscape cross softly, holding anxiety and pain deep in sensation.

Like a song arriving from the depth of night, the presence of what has been lost returns to language.

the deadbodily sensationprayer and night
Mikirou Sasaki ささき みきお award

A poetry collection by Mikiro Sasaki. Taking the tactile act of gathering honey and the density of nature as its cues, it opens a poetic space where body, memory, and place intersect.

The poems slowly gather not only sweetness, but also the wildness hidden behind it.

79 pages
poetrynaturebodily sensationmemory

Shell Hunting is a poetry collection by Kiyomi Konagaya. Around what has been lost, what remains as a husk, and bodily sensation, it layers everyday texture with an unsettling inner world.

The act of gathering husks recalls lost time and bodily memory.

113 pages
modern poetrylossbodily sensationeveryday life
Tsuji Yukio award

In the Margins of Verlaine is a poetry collection by Yukio Tsuji. In a plain voice that holds humor and pain together, it depicts solitude and lyric feeling that can only be written in the margins.

Beside Verlaine's margins, a solitary lyricism quietly begins to move.

80 pages
modern poetrylyricismVerlainesolitude
Tatsuya Iwanari いわなり たつや award

フレベヴリィ・ヒツポポウタムスの唄 is a poetry collection by 岩成達也. It is recorded as a 受賞 work, and its title and genre show one facet of the author's literary concerns.

フレベヴリィ・ヒツポポウタムスの唄 by 岩成達也 is a poetry collection remembered through its award history.

106 pages
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Abe Iwao あべ いわお award

ベーゲェット氏 is a 文学作品 by 阿部岩夫. 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, ベーゲェット氏 leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

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Makoto Takayanagi たかやなぎ まこと award

都市の肖像 is a 文学作品 by 高柳誠. 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, 都市の肖像 leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

award-recognized work文学作品memoryperiod atmosphere
Mutsuo Takahashi たかはし むつろう award

兎の庭 is a work of poetry by 高橋睦郎, shaped by precise language, memory, and the texture of everyday perception.

兎の庭 is a work of poetry by 高橋睦郎, shaped by precise language, memory, and the texture of everyday perception.

101 pages
poetrymemorylanguageeveryday life
Matsuura Hisaki まつうら としき award

冬の本 is a work of poetry by 松浦寿輝, shaped by precise language, memory, and the texture of everyday perception.

冬の本 is a work of poetry by 松浦寿輝, shaped by precise language, memory, and the texture of everyday perception.

169 pages
poetrymemorylanguageeveryday life
Hiroshi Kawasaki かわさき よう award

ビスケットの空カン is a poetry collection by Kawasaki Hiroshi and a winner of 高見順賞.

ビスケットの空カン is an essential work in the award history of Kawasaki Hiroshi.

43 pages
poetrylanguagelyricism
Shindō Ryōko しんどう りょうこ award

Ryoko Shindo’s third poetry collection. Prompted by the deaths of people close to the poet, it examines the feeling that life and death are joined in one line, transforming personal memory and loss into dense poetic language.

A poetry collection tracing the path of life and death through memories of loss.

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Takahiko Okada おかだ たかひこ award

Takahiko Okada’s tenth poetry collection. Centered on the poet’s recovery from alcoholism, it forms a long-poem-like book in which lived action and poetic lines seem to prompt one another.

It records the self’s movement toward recovery as a continuous flow of poetry.

163 pages
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Taijirō Amazawa あまさわ たいじろう award

A poetry collection that looks into an underworld opening beneath everyday reality, layering verbal resonance with philosophical tension as it descends into inner darkness. The work conveys the experimental force and spiritual pressure of postwar Japanese poetry.

〈地獄〉にて illuminates human memory and feeling through the symbolic force carried by its title.

地獄表象内面の暗部戦後詩
Miyoshi Toyoichiro みよし とよいちろう award

夏の淵 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.

夏の淵 draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

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Yasuo Irizawa いりさわ やすお award

A poetry collection in which the presence of the dead gathers within landscapes, crossing memory with the present. Beneath its quiet language lie history and personal loss.

死者たちの群がる風景 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 風景.

poetrymemory of the deadlandscape
Shigeo Washizu わしず しげお award

行為の歌 is a work by 鷲巣繁男 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.

行為の歌 by 鷲巣繁男 remains associated with its award recognition.

275 pages
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Motoo Ando あんどう もとお award

“Mizu no Naka no Saigetsu” is a poetry collection by Motoo Ando. Centered on the sensation of water, the sinking of time, and the wavering of memory, it layers everyday scenes with inner silence. In restrained language, it quietly brings out the texture of passing time.

Time submerged in water slowly trembles along the edges of memory.

modern poetrywatertimememorysilence
Takusuke Shibusawa しぶさわ こうすけ award

A poetry collection by Kosuke Shibusawa. Rooted in his work with French literature and modern poetry, it layers hard-edged language and abstract images, tracing inner life and the depth of the world like a corridor.

A poetry collection in which hard-edged language turns back into the depths of memory and consciousness.

111 pages
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Ryusei Hasegawa はせがわ りゅうせい award

詩的生活 is a 文学作品 work by 長谷川龍生, 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 長谷川龍生's perspective.

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Tetsuzo Tsuburai つぶらい てつぞう award

望楼 is an award-winning work by 粒来哲蔵. It follows personal memory, place, and the pressure of everyday life through a voice shaped by its period.

A compact work in which 粒来哲蔵 traces how memory and daily life shape a person's sense of belonging.

142 pages
memoryeveryday lifeselfhood
Minoru Yoshioka よしおか みのる award

A poetry collection by Minoru Yoshioka. Taking saffron, with its color and fragrance, as a point of departure, it combines precise imagery with an exotic sensibility to build a poetic world that transforms reality.

The color and scent of saffron open foreign visions within hard, exact language.

modern poetryimageryexoticismtransformation
Shuntaro Tanikawa たにかわ しゅんたろう award

Definitions is a poetry collection in which Shuntaro Tanikawa shifts and reexamines the meanings of words, opening the sensations and worldviews behind everyday language. Its short lines invite readers to experience movement of thought rather than explanation.

A poetry collection that unsettles the act of defining rather than fixing words in place.

73 pages
languagedefinitionmodern poetrythought
Koichi Iijima いいじま こういち award

Koichi Iijima’s poetry collection uses Goya’s name as a way to cross painting, history, and private perception. As a Takami Jun Prize winner, it shows the intellectual and visual reach of postwar Japanese poetry.

From a painter’s name, the poetic gaze extends into history and sensation.

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Sachiko Yoshihara よしはら さちこ award

オンディーヌ/昼顔 is a literary work by 吉原幸子. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

オンディーヌ/昼顔 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
Toshio Nakae なかえ としお award

語彙集 is a literary work by 中江俊夫. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

語彙集 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

memory and placehuman feelingsocial context
Kasuya Eiichi かすや えいいち award

世界の構造 is a 作品 by 粕谷栄市. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.

世界の構造 conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.

1 pages
award-winning work作品Showa-era literatureauthorial perspective
Taku Miki みき たく award

A poetry collection by Taku Miki. It transfers childhood, memory, and the feeling of play into poetic language, showing the poetic world of a writer later active as a novelist.

The work recalls a childlike land of memory and sensation through poetic language.

poetrychildhoodmemoryplaymodern poetry
Gōzō Yoshimasu よします ごうぞう award

A poetry collection by Gozo Yoshimasu. It layers rushing language, the city, the body, and the heat of its era, powerfully marking the energy of modern Japanese poetry.

A major poetry collection that engraves the heat of an age of poetry and revolt in leaping language.

225 pages
modern poetrycitybodyspeedrevolt