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連灯: 佐藤通雅歌集

Chōkū Prize

連灯: 佐藤通雅歌集

Michimasa Satou

Michimasa Sato's eleventh tanka collection, Rento, carries the places and time after the Great East Japan Earthquake, writing of overturned daily life, the presence of the dead, and the thoughts of those left among the living. Like a chain of lights, the book connects personal memory with the memory of social catastrophe.

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Work Information

A tanka collection that lights a path between life and death from the ground after disaster.

Rento: Sato Michimasa Kashu was published by Tanka Kenkyusha, with its ISBN confirmed through book retailer records. A close reading by Sunagoya Shobo argues that being in a place after the earthquake and tsunami shapes the book's thought and style. From a post-disaster location, the collection reconnects the dead and the living, personal memory and social memory.

Review Summaries

  • The critical reading sees the poet's standing in a post-tsunami place as giving the collection experiential thought and a distinctive style. The broken landscape after ordinary life collapses is raised not as mere record but through sensory details such as whiteness and sand.

Book Information

Publisher
短歌研究社
Published
2017-03-11
Pages
220 pages
Language
日本語
Size
12.7 x 1.1 x 18.8 cm
ISBN-13
9784862725219
ISBN-10
486272521X
Price
3300 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/詩歌/歌集

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