歌集 時祷集 (沃野叢書)
Hiroki Saegusa's sixth tanka collection, Jito-shu, gives form to accumulated experience, thoughts of the dead, the natural landscape of Koshu, and the quietness of daily life in a tone close to prayer. Rather than simply releasing emotion, the book refines tanka into language that stays close to lived experience.
Work Information
A sixth tanka collection, appearing after a long interval, where experience and prayer quietly overlap.
Jito-shu was published by the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and sold by KADOKAWA; it won the 52nd Choku Prize in 2018. The official judges repeatedly point to its elegies for people close to the poet, its Koshu landscape, and its quiet, religiously inflected expression. Saegusa himself describes tanka as language that has come to accompany not only emotion but experience, bringing more than half a century of writing into this volume.
Review Summaries
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The judges praise the many deeply felt elegies, the ability to render the large natural presence of Koshu with breadth, and the quiet musicality of the poems. The long accumulation of time gives the collection weight, supporting its view of life and death with mature language.
Book Information
- Publisher
- KADOKAWA
- Published
- 2017-03-02
- Pages
- 356 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- Size
- 13.5 x 2.4 x 19.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9784048764179
- ISBN-10
- 4048764179
- Price
- 1840 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/詩歌/詩集
うつせみのひかり集めてたまかぎる夕べの色とわれはなりゆく 他者からの影響がどんなに濃いものであっても、やはりわたしはわたしであって、わたしの歌はわたしの歌でしかないのであった。哀しいほどにそうであった。16年ぶり待望の第6歌集。
●三枝 浩樹:1946年甲府市生まれ。高校時代に「沃野」入会、植松壽樹に学ぶ。その後、「反措定」「かりん」「りとむ」の創刊に参画、会員となる。2009年「沃野」に復帰、代表となる。歌集に『朝の歌』『銀の驟雨』『世界に献ずる二百の祈祷』『みどりの揺監』『歩行者』。評論に『八木重吉 たましひのスケッチ』。
Related Literary Awards
- Chōkū Prize Edition 52 (2018) ・award