DOQAN Publishes Wanazawa's First Poetry Collection Yorube
DOQAN's second release turns work that circulated on social media and at readings for years into a single book, and pairs it with obi comments from poet Kujira Sakisaka and Kamonegi Shoten manager Kota Omori.
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DOQAN, a publishing label QANDO Inc. launched in 2025, has published Yorube, the first book by wanazawa, a poet active in Tokyo's poetry reading scene. The collection gathers tanka, haiku, free verse and dodoitsu published mostly on social media over a dozen-plus years, plus new pieces, arranged under three themes: night, solitude and melancholy; seasons and daily life; and the occult, malice and fiction.
Yorube selects from roughly a dozen years of wanazawa's tanka, haiku, free verse and dodoitsu, most of it published on social media, and adds newly written poems. The title reads two ways: yorube as a place to belong, and yoru as night. The book is the second release from DOQAN, following the November 2025 exchange of letters between Kiyoshiro Imawano and Reichi Nakaido, Imawano-kun to Nakaido-kun. Yuki Koga designed the book.
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