Yamamoto Kenkichi Literary Award やまもとけんきちぶんがくしょう
Edition 8 (2008)
Winners
4 peopleA haiku collection that receives the bodily feeling and memories of one's eighties through a brief poetic form. Rather than only lamenting age, it finds the certainty of life in seasonal change.
A haiku collection that receives the bodily feeling and memories of one's eighties through a brief poetic form.
A tanka collection that looks at a maiden painted on a screen and reads the distance of time and changing images of womanhood. Behind its painterly stillness lies tension between viewer and viewed.
A tanka collection that looks at a maiden painted on a screen and reads the distance of time and changing images of womanhood.
A poetic work that rethinks ordinary language and political feeling through the metaphor of left and right. With humor and critique, it illuminates unease hidden in everyday expressions.
A poetic work that rethinks ordinary language and political feeling through the metaphor of left and right.
A critical history tracing how haiku was written, read, and carried from wartime into the postwar period. It examines the relation between historical pressure and literary expression within haiku circles.
A critical history tracing how haiku was written, read, and carried from wartime into the postwar period.