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

Edition 7 (2007)

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Winners

4 people
Haruki Kadokawa かどかわ はるき haiku category

This haiku collection follows Haruki Kadokawa’s family and postwar time through verse. Family history, publishing culture, and postwar memory overlap, turning personal experience into a sequence of haiku.

角川家の戦後 is an award-recognized 句集 by 角川春樹.

223 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
Kyoko Kuriki くりき きょうこ tanka category

This tanka collection by Kyoko Kuriki gathers sensations of body, time, and daily life through images of transparency and wavering light. It condenses the delicate sensibility of contemporary tanka.

けむり水晶 is an award-recognized 歌集 by 栗木京子.

222 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
Fuminori Yoshida よしだ ふみのり poetry category

This poetry collection follows the feel of memory and time through seasonal light and the quiet of daily life. Its restrained language leaves a steady gaze on passing time.

六月の光、九月の椅子 is an award-recognized 詩集 by 吉田文憲.

121 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
前田霧人 まえだ きりひと criticism category

This critical work reads the haiku poet Shinohara Hosaku by connecting his poems with their era and the course of haiku history. Through haiku, it looks closely at the seasons and life of a single writer.

鳳作の季節 is an award-recognized 評論 by 前田霧人.

298 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work