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勾玉: 句集 (俳句四季文庫)

Modern Haiku Women's Award

勾玉: 句集 (俳句四季文庫)

Atsuko Ohashi

A haiku collection by Ohashi Atsuko. Inheriting her father Ohashi Ohashi's view of observing nature as it is, it moves toward her idea of unity between subject and object. Snow, nuts, earth, sea, and other natural presences are placed within a tension between vitality and objective description.

haikunatureunity of subject and objectvitalityobjective description

Work Information

It opens a haiku world where self and object resonate within the forms of nature.

Magatama is a haiku collection in which Ohashi Atsuko looks closely at the relationship between nature and self. Cool observation joins a sensitivity to life, producing poems where natural images and human perception meet, such as the sea swallowing snow or earth responding to fallen nuts.

Review Summaries

  • The Ugetsu history notes that Ohashi Atsuko inherited the journal, advocated unity between subject and object, and won the Contemporary Women's Haiku Prize for Magatama.

  • A haiku from Magatama is read as using the repeated phrase about snow being swallowed to evoke falling snow and the sea growing bluer with strong emotion.

Book Information

Publisher
東京四季出版
Published
2010-07-01
Pages
123 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784812906316
ISBN-10
4812906318
Price
1047 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

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