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童子

Shiika Bungakukan Prize

童子

Masaki Ikei

A poetry collection that gathers family and everyday life in gentle language close to a child's gaze. Small sounds and scenes rise with nostalgia and sudden loneliness.

modern poetryfamilymemory of daily lifea child's gaze

Work Information

Household light, kitchen sounds, and the warmth of a place to return to become quiet poetic time.

A collection by Masaki Ikei that uses family, children, homecoming, and meals to depict both the gentleness of living and unavoidable parting. Its brief lines accumulate until they meet the reader's own experience.

Review Summaries

  • It is valued for making ordinary life resonate through plain language. Rather than showy technique, its strength is the slow touch it leaves on memory.

Book Information

Publisher
思潮社
Published
2006-08-01
Pages
136 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784783721512
ISBN-10
4783721513
Price
896 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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