Takami Jun Award
たかみじゅんしょう
A literary award presented annually to outstanding poets
- 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
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selection Committee | Amazawa Daijirō, Takahashi Mutsumarō, Koike Masayo, Itō Hiyomi, Matsuura Hisaki (2018) | — | Announced every January |
Official Resources
http://www016.upp.so-net.ne.jp/takami/Past Winners
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
渡世 is a work by 荒川洋治. It was recognized by the takami jun award in 1998.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.