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Yamamoto Kenkichi Literary Award やまもとけんきちぶんがくしょう

Edition 1 (2001)

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Winners

6 people
Keiko Ito いとう けいこ haiku category

This haiku collection frames landscapes as a hundred scenes, accumulating details of season and place. Precise observation resonates with an awareness of the time behind each view.

百景 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 伊藤敬子.

241 pages
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Shimada Shuji しまだ しゅうじ tanka category

This tanka collection turns the journey of life into poetic time, marking travel, aging, and memory with restraint. Its calm diction opens the perspective of someone who has walked a long road.

行路 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 島田修二.

238 pages
tankajourneyagingmemorylife
Tanaka Kiyomitsu たなか きよみつ poetry category

This poetry collection reshapes feelings after rupture and loss into language of renewal. Beneath its quiet voice lies a firm will to recover life.

再生 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 田中清光.

109 pages
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田中義信 たなか よしのぶ criticism category

This critical work rereads the haikai poet Takarai Kikaku through the vitality of Genroku culture and urban wit. It portrays Kikaku through both tradition and deviation.

元禄の鬼才 宝井其角 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 田中義信.

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Shizuo Miyasaka みやさか しずお criticism category

This critical book rereads haiku through bodily sensation, treating season words and natural imagery as physical response. It links appreciation and practice by asking how haiku language reaches the body.

俳句からだ感 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 宮坂静生.

315 pages
haikucriticismbodily sensationseason words
Masaharu Fukuyama ふくやま まさはる lyrics category

This lyric places parting and memory on a cherry-blossom slope. Widely known as a popular song, it uses spare language to evoke elapsed time and the ache of a love that will not return.

桜坂 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 福山雅治.

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