The tenth tanka collection by Takahiro Otsuji. Taking the deepening colour of tsurubami dye as an image of his late fifties, it traces the complex shades of time and life in tanka.

A tanka collection that uses the deepening colour of tsurubami dye to consider the texture of years lived.

Mother is Kunio Takayama's second tanka collection. Observing meals, dressing, and singing with his mother, who has dementia, it finds not only difficulty but also enjoyment and joy in the days of care.

A tanka collection that observes life with a mother who has dementia, finding enjoyment and joy in the days of care.

Her fifth tanka collection, layering the process of becoming a mother with everyday life as a researcher. Family memory and bodily change rise quietly from the details of daily life.

Pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, and a missing mother intersect in the texture of everyday life.

Okuda Bouyou’s third tanka collection, drawing out the texture of time and life through everyday details and the image of flowers.

The image of flowers lets the days rise quietly into view.

A haiku collection that delicately sings of everyday life in Fukuoka, the feel of light, and the presence of water. The overlap between bodily sensation and scenery emerges at a quiet pace.

The poems come straight toward the light.

ひどいどしゃぶり is an award-recognized work by 谷岡亜紀. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

ひどいどしゃぶり is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

Yuriko Matsumura's fifth tanka collection turns recurring motifs such as light and darkness, glittering water, and dense forests into poems shaped by a prayer for a brighter future.

Repeated images of light and darkness become a vessel for a prayer toward the future.

A tanka collection by Gojin Kuroiwa that carries bodily sensation and memory rooted in daily life into poetry, with the familiar resonance of baseball in its title giving the collection a direct, lived texture.

A tanka collection that presses bodily memory and everyday feeling directly into fixed-form verse.

Hiroshi Homura’s fourth tanka collection, where sudden strangeness and humor in daily life become poems of brightness and unease.

Hiroshi Homura’s fourth tanka collection, where sudden strangeness and humor in daily life become poems of brightness and unease.

時禱集 is an award-recognized work by 三枝浩樹. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

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

鳥の見しもの is an award-recognized work by 吉川宏志. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.

鳥の見しもの is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

虚空の橋 is a work by 内藤明 associated with the 若山牧水賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

虚空の橋 by 内藤明 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

ゆりかごのうた is an award-recognized 歌集 by 大松達知. 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.

ゆりかごのうた looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

浸蝕 is a 歌集・句集 by 晋樹 隆彦 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 浸蝕, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

トリサンナイタ is a 歌集 by 大口玲子. A tanka collection that holds the land and language of Tohoku, family, and feelings after disaster. The sound of its place name conveys loss and the texture of life.

トリサンナイタ builds its world around tanka.

月食 is a work by 大下一真 recorded in the 2011-1 award data. A book-format record was confirmed, so its bibliographic data can be treated at the work level.

月食 by 大下一真 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.

A tanka collection by Satoko Kawano. It layers details of everyday life with a sense of history and time, tracing the depth of the world in quiet language.

Within the compact form of tanka, the movement of time and the texture of life come into view.

A tanka collection by Shiyo Oshima, where an editor’s eye for language overlaps with the shadows of daily life.

An eye trained on language quietly illuminates the shadows of life.

A tanka collection with the stillness of water lilies on a pond, taking in seasons, aging, memory, and familiar landscapes. Its restrained language gives a sense of deepening time.

A tanka collection with the stillness of water lilies on a pond, taking in seasons, aging, memory, and familiar landscapes.

This tanka collection by Hisa Kagawa treats viewpoint itself as a central concern, catching daily life and memory from several angles. Within the compressed form of tanka, it delicately reveals a changing distance from the world.

perspective is an award-recognized 歌集 by 香川ヒサ.

アメリカ is a work by 坂井修一. It was selected for the 若山牧水賞 in 2006.

A work by 坂井修一 recognized by the 若山牧水賞.

プーさんの鼻 is a work by 俵万智. It was selected for the 若山牧水賞 in 2006.

A work by 俵万智 recognized by the 若山牧水賞.

あかるたへ by 水原紫苑 is introduced as a work that 戦争の記憶と日本人の魂の行方を、鋭い言葉と祈りの感覚で編み上げた歌集。古典的な響きと現代への切実なまなざしが重なり、救済を求める声が全体を貫いています。

あかるたへ is a concise gateway into 水原紫苑's literary world.

滝と流星 is a poetic work by 米川千嘉子. 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 滝と流星 conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.

Behind Summer is Kyoko Kuriki's fifth tanka collection. It brings social events close to daily life, keeping an intelligent and critical gaze while letting poems dissolve into the details of living.

An intelligent, critical fifth collection that dissolves social events into everyday life.

Takayuki Saigusa’s tanka collection takes its title from a snow shape associated with the Southern Alps. Against mountains, seasons, and local memory, it reads deep historical and regional time through everyday life and nature.

農鳥 presents a concentrated view of 三枝昂之’s award-recognized work.

Centered on the everyday act of walking, this tanka collection observes family, body, aging, and the seasons. Its plain language vividly outlines deep time and feeling within daily life.

歩く is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 河野裕子.

本所両国 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.

本所両国 draws readers into its world through the resonance of its title.

希望 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.

希望 draws readers into its world through the resonance of its title.

茫漠山日誌（ぼうばくさんにっし） is an award-winning work. This Wakayama Bokusui Award-winning tanka collection portrays mountains, travel, and lived time.

茫漠山日誌（ぼうばくさんにっし） presents its award-recognized themes and narrative voice with clarity.

Aeba is the sixth tanka collection by Kazuhiro Nagata, who is also a cell biologist. Against the background of a life deeply committed to both scientific research and tanka, it sharply captures sensations of sleep, the body, and language.

A sixth tanka collection that captures sleep, the body, and language from a life lived through both research and poetry.

旅人 by Sasaki Yukitsuna is a work associated with the Wakayama Bokusui 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.

旅人 quietly conveys the core appeal that has kept it read as an award-recognized work.

天泣（てんきふ） is a literary work by 高野公彦. Recognized by the award, it centers on the world suggested by its title and follows shifts in character, memory, and atmosphere.

天泣（てんきふ） reflects 高野公彦's voice and the literary concerns surrounding its award year.