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Japan Tanka Poets Club Award

あらがね

Kazuhiro Honda

Kazuhiro Honda's tanka collection looks at Fukushima's soil and language, memory of the dead, and a life rooted in place. Carrying the climate of his home region, it layers singing the soil with the act of living.

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Work Information

Words born from Fukushima's soil cultivate the space between the living and the dead.

A tanka collection by Kazuhiro Honda published by Nagarami Shobo. The publisher's page confirms the format, price, ISBN, and out-of-stock notice, and CiNii Books verifies the normalized ISBN and page count. The ISBN used here belongs to the prize-winning book itself, not to a later selected collection.

Review Summaries

  • The poems presented by the publisher convey a deep bond with Fukushima and a lyricism marked by loss. The collection's center lies in an attitude of cultivating the language of place.

Book Information

Publisher
ながらみ書房
Published
2018-05-28
Pages
256 pages
Language
日本語
Size
21.5 x 14.4 x 2.3 cm
ISBN-13
9784866291079
ISBN-10
4866291079
Price
1900 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/詩歌/和歌・俳諧

地の声の始原性をよびもどし、ふたたびの安穏がやってくるまで、みちのくの骨太い詩魂が歌い継ぐ、第四歌集

1969年生れ。歌人、高校教員。短歌結社竹柏会「心の花」に所属し、佐佐木幸綱に師事。現代歌人協会会員、日本文藝家協会会員。

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