Saito Mokichi Tanka Literary Award
歌集 岸辺
The twelfth tanka collection, looking toward the dark edges of disaster, illness, and war while approaching the boundary between life and death through the aging body and the small details of everyday life.
Work Information
There is something biblical on the shore; removing his hat, the light of water falls on his forehead.
A tanka collection by Michimasa Sato published by the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation. Against the background of the Great East Japan Earthquake, illness, and war, it quietly probes aging and boundary conditions.
Review Summaries
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The judges value the poet's stance of observing the tanka world from Sendai with both objectivity and criticism, and his ability to render the memory of the disaster as something still unfolding.
Book Information
- Publisher
- KADOKAWA
- Published
- 2022-07-14
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- Size
- 13.7 x 2.3 x 19.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9784048844826
- ISBN-10
- 4048844822
- Price
- 2860 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/詩歌/詩集
岸辺にはなにか聖書の感じあり帽とり額に水の光当つ 震災、病苦、そして戦争。時代の暗部は湖面にも揺蕩っている。さざ波は問いかけてくるだけで何も応えない。人間の業とは、命とは。実直な詩魂で深淵に迫る最新歌集。
●佐藤 通雅:1943年水沢市生れ。66年、個人編集誌「路上」創刊。61年に入会した「短歌人」を退会後あらゆる組織との関係を絶ち、「路上」のみを拠点として、創刊・批評活動を展開。歌論以外に童話論、童謡論、教育論などマルチな批評を掲載している。