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みどりなりけり: 築地正子歌集

Shiika Bungakukan Prize

みどりなりけり: 築地正子歌集

Masako Tsukiji

In Midori Narikeri, Masako Tsukiji writes tanka rooted in the fields and village life of Kumamoto, addressing aging, memory, the shadow of war, and the plants and birds that sustain life. Attentive to the particulars of everyday nature, the collection quietly asks where a life is headed.

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Work Information

A tanka collection that listens for the presence of plants and birds while contemplating an aging self and the time of a particular place.

Published by Sunagoya Shobo in 1997, this is Masako Tsukiji's fourth tanka collection. Selected from poems written after her preceding collection Sagi no Sho, it gathers the natural world of Kumamoto, postwar history, aging, and solitude in language both keen and restrained. It received the 13th Shika Bungakukan Prize in the tanka division in 1998.

Book Information

Publisher
砂子屋書房
Published
2000-04-25
Pages
205 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784790404934
ISBN-10
4790404935
Category
本/文学・評論

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