Tanka Research Award たんかけんきゅうしょう
Edition 43 (2007)
TankaLiterary award
Winners
1 peopleWith a title invoking plants, this work captures season, body, and passing time through the compressed language of tanka. Takako Hidaka's poems closely observe fluctuations within everyday scenery.
Within the season called forth by hibiscus and kudzu, brief words open a deep sense of time.
tankaplants and seasonsense of time