Tanka Research Newcomer Award たんかけんきゅうしんじんしょう
Edition 29 (1986)
Tanka
Winners
1 peopleAn early tanka sequence by Jiro Kato, bringing colloquial ease and an urban sensibility into the fixed form. It stands at the starting point of the New Wave tanka voice later developed in Sunny Side Up.
The lightness of everyday speech gives the fixed tanka form a fresh texture.
modern tankacolloquial expressionurban sensibilityyouth