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句集 秋

Shiika Bungakukan Prize

句集 秋

Kawasaki Tenko

Autumn is a haiku collection by Kawasaki Tenkō, shaped by his commitment to shasei-inspired seasonal poetry and by memories of war. Its clear, poised verses draw on a deep engagement with the Japanese classics to explore changing seasons and human feeling.

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Work Information

A haiku collection that quietly joins the changing seasons to a classical sensibility and a poetic life shaped by the postwar years.

Published by Kadokawa Shoten in August 1997, this is Kawasaki Tenkō's fifth haiku collection. The work received the haiku division of the Japan Contemporary Poetic Literature Museum Prize and engages the tradition of celebrating nature while retaining the historical memory of the poet's wartime experience.

Book Information

Publisher
KADOKAWA
Published
1997-12-01
Pages
184 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784048716598
ISBN-10
404871659X
Price
332 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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