57577 Tanka Awards Return With Poet Satoshi Chiba as Judge
The second edition expands the contest beyond digital submissions into physical retail and bookstore distribution, signaling tanka's growing presence as a daily cultural form among younger users.
Key Facts
- The second 57577 Tanka Awards, hosted on the tanka-only SNS app with over 11,000 monthly active users and 34,000 monthly submissions, opens July 1, 2026.
- Poet Satoshi Chiba, an NHK Tanka selector and selection committee member for the Tanka Kenkyu Shinjin Sho, will judge the free theme category.
- Winning poems will be printed on neck hangers for Masumi Hiyaoroshi sake and as bookmarks at Sanseido Bookstore Kanda Jimbocho Main Store.
- A themed category with the theme 'evening drink' is held in collaboration with sake retailer IMADEYA, and the top 100 popular poems will be distributed as coasters at IMADEYA stores.
- A collaborative poetry gathering hosted by poet Kei Amano is scheduled for August 22, 2026, at IMADEYA TERRACE Kiyosumi Shirakawa.
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The tanka-only SNS app 57577, with over 11,000 monthly active users and 34,000 monthly submissions, will hold its second Tanka Awards starting July 1, 2026. Poet Satoshi Chiba judges the free theme category. Collaborations with sake retailer IMADEYA and Sanseido Bookstore turn winning poems into neck hangers and bookmarks.
Poet Satoshi Chiba, a selection committee member for the Tanka Kenkyu Shinjin Sho and an NHK Tanka selector, will judge the free theme category of the second 57577 Tanka Awards. The contest, run by 57577 Inc. on its tanka-only SNS app, opens July 1, 2026. The app has grown to over 11,000 monthly active users and more than 500,000 cumulative submissions since its February 2024 release. About 70 percent of users are 34 or younger.
Winning poems will appear as neck hangers on Masumi Hiyaoroshi sake, produced by Miyasaka Brewing, and as bookmarks at Sanseido Bookstore Kanda Jimbocho Main Store, which reopened in March 2026 after renovation. A themed category with the theme "evening drink" is held in collaboration with IMADEYA, a sake select shop founded in 1962. The top 100 popular poems will be distributed as coasters at IMADEYA stores. A collaborative poetry gathering is scheduled for August 22, 2026, at IMADEYA TERRACE Kiyosumi Shirakawa, hosted by poet Kei Amano.
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