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

Edition 8 (2008)

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Winners

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Murakoshi Kaseki むらこし かせき haiku category

A 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.

haikuagingseasonsmemory
Chikako Yonekawa よねかわ ちかこ tanka category

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.

tankapaintingimages of womentime
Arthur Binard あーさー びなーど poetry category

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.

poetrylanguagepoliticseveryday life
山田春生 やまだ はるお criticism category

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.

haikucriticismpostwar literatureliterary history