Terayama Shuji Tanka Award
てらやましゅうじたんかしょう
Japanese tanka award targeting outstanding tanka collections by mid-career male poets.
- Established
- 1995
- Organizer
- Sunagoya Shobo
- Category
- Tanka
- Selection Method
- Selection
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
Established in 1995 to commemorate the 13th anniversary of Terayama Shuji's death, this award selects tanka collections published the previous year by mid-career male poets. Winners receive a certificate and 300,000 yen prize money, and the selection meeting and award ceremony are held simultaneously. It ended with the 21st edition in 2016.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Certificate and 300,000 yen prize money
- Cash Prize
- 300,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selection meeting | Hiroshi Shino, Yukitsuna Sasaki, Hikaru Koike, Takako Kayama | /null | /null |
Related Awards
- Kono Aiko Prize
- Kuzuhara Myoko Prize
Official Resources
https://www.sunagoya.com/Past Winners
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駅程 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.
秋の茱萸坂 is a work by 小高賢 associated with the 寺山修司短歌賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.
秋の茱萸坂 by 小高賢 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.
すずめ is an award-recognized 歌集 by 藤島秀憲. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.
すずめ looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.
饕餮の家 is a 歌集・句集 by 高島 裕 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 饕餮の家, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.
雲鳥 is an award-related work by 田中拓也. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.
雲鳥 offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.
眉月集 is a work by 本田 一弘 recorded in the 2011-1 award data. A book-format record was confirmed, so its bibliographic data can be treated at the work level.
眉月集 by 本田 一弘 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.
Sokkon is a tanka collection by Kazuma Oshita. It captures the feeling of standing in the present moment, without escaping into past or future, through the rhythm of tanka.
Words that accept the present quietly mark the outline of time.
A tanka collection whose title evokes a wanderer, layering a moving mind with memories of place. It depicts feelings between belonging and departure in restrained language.
A tanka collection whose title evokes a wanderer, layering a moving mind with memories of place.
This tanka work evokes the postwar black market to depict desire, memory, and the noise of daily life. Even within its dark subject matter, the language has density and tactile specificity.
From the murmur of the black market rises a human presence linking postwar time and the present.
海雨 is a work by 吉川宏志. It was selected for the 寺山修司短歌賞 in 2006.
A work by 吉川宏志 recognized by the 寺山修司短歌賞.
新月の暗さと蜜の濃さをあわせ持つpoetry collection。自然、記憶、抒情を端正に結び、宮崎を拠点にした作者の長い歌歴を感じさせる。
新月の蜜 condenses a sense of time and body into brief poetic language.
斧と勾玉 is a poetic work by 内藤明. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.
The title 斧と勾玉 conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.
Depths is Takahiro Otsuji's fourth tanka collection. Its sharp metaphors catch everyday sensation while the poems deepen the physical and scenic dimensions of the poet's world.
A fourth collection that lets even the blurred clouds before snow sink into the depths of perception.
Walking Buddha is Matsuo Watanabe's third tanka collection. It turns human life and bodily weight into tactile figures such as Buddhist statues and sticks, raising quiet pain and strength at the same time.
Even a life like a stick has length; the poems turn that pain into song.
Sisyphus no Asa is a tanka collection whose title evokes mythic repetition. It joins the labor of daily life with the renewed light of morning, quietly considering time, effort, and persistence.
シジフォスの朝 presents a concentrated view of 島田修三’s award-recognized work.
This tanka collection crosses mountain imagery, animal presence, urban unease, and intellectual metaphor. Its restrained voice carries an outward-looking consciousness and solitary humor.
羚羊譚 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 山田富士郎.
ジャックの種子 is a tanka 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.
ジャックの種子 draws readers into its world through the resonance of its title.
昏睡のパラダイス is an award-winning work. This Terayama Shuji Tanka Award winner brings urban feeling, physical sensation, and imagination into tanka.
昏睡のパラダイス presents its award-recognized themes and narrative voice with clarity.
甲州百目 is a work by 三枝昂之. It was recognized by the terayama shuji tanka award in 1998.
華氏 by Kazuhiro Nagata is a work associated with the Terayama Shuji Tanka 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.
華氏 quietly conveys the core appeal that has kept it read as an award-recognized work.
草の庭 is a tanka work by 小池光. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.
草の庭 reflects 小池光's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.