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麦は生ふれど: 歌集

Kadokawa Tanka Award

麦は生ふれど: 歌集

深井芳治

A tanka collection that sets details of daily life against postwar memory and the pain of youth. The title's image of wheat carries a sense of life continuing to grow through difficulty.

tankapostwar memorypoems of daily life

Work Information

Like wheat growing, time marked by pain moves toward language.

Published by Kadokawa Shoten as a tanka collection. Centered on the prize-winning work, it presents Fukai's postwar poetic sensibility and critical eye.

Review Summaries

  • Readers are struck by poems that sharply capture youth and memories of war, where direct feeling and criticism of the times coexist.

Book Information

Publisher
KADOKAWA
Published
2002-11-01
Pages
207 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784048761222
ISBN-10
4048761226
Price
827 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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