Madoka Mayuzumi

　
俳人。神奈川県生まれ。1994年、「Ｂ面の夏」50句で第40回角川俳句賞奨励賞受賞。同年、俳句サークル「東京ヘップバーン」発足。1996年、俳句誌「月刊ヘップバーン」創刊・主宰（2006年、通巻100号を機に終刊）。1999年、北スペイン・サンチャゴ巡礼道約800kmを徒歩で踏破したのに続き、2001年～2002年、四季にわたり5回訪韓し、釜山からソウルまでの道のり約500kmを徒歩で踏破。2002年、『京都の恋』で第2回山本健吉文学賞受賞。現在、「日本再発見塾」呼びかけ人代表、「NPO法人日本カミーノ・デ・サンティアゴ友の会」理事、「社団法人日本ユネスコ協会連盟」未来遺産委員、「財団法人神奈川文学振興会」評議員。2010年4月～2011年3月、文化庁「海外派遣型文化交流使」として渡仏。 

主な著書に、句集『Ｂ面の夏』(角川書店)、『花ごろも』『京都の恋』(以上、PHP研究所)、『忘れ貝』(文學の森)、紀行『ら・ら・ら「奥の細道」』(光文社)、『星の旅人』（角川文庫）、『サランヘヨ』(実業之日本社)、『文豪、偉人の「愛」をたどる旅』（集英社）、エッセイ『知っておきたい「この一句」』(PHP文庫)、『あなたへの一句』(バジリコ)、『その瞬間―創作の現場 ひらめきの時』（角川学芸出版）など。 

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Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Madoka Mayuzumi first received acclaim when poems she submitted won an award from publisher Kadokawa Shoten in 1994. Her haiku are notable for their romantic and urban flavor, and for bringing new elements into the tradition. 

Her first book, B-men no Natsu (B-side Summer), enjoyed unprecedented sales for a haiku collection, and the devoted following it earned led to the formation of the “Hepburn” Club, the only all-female coterie in Japan. The club launched the monthly haiku magazine Gekkan Hepburn in August 1996, and disbanded in March 2006 after publishing 100 issues. 

In 1999, Mayuzumi successfully trekked the Way of St. James (Route of Santiago de Compostela), an 800-kilometer pilgrimage from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (France) to Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Her haiku and essays of the journey were later serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun, a major national newspaper in Japan, and published in the book Hoshi no Tabibito (The Pilgrim to Compostela). Between 2001 and 2002, Mayuzumi visited South Korea five times, during all four seasons, to hike the nearly 500 kilometers from Busan to Seoul. Her haiku and essays of this journey too were serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun and published as a book. 

In 2002, Mayuzumi’s fifth haiku-collection, Kyoto no Koi (Kyoto Romance), won the Kenkichi Yamamoto Literary Prize. 

In December 2006, amidst many reports in the media of bullying, suicide, and other depressing news, Mayuzumi began delivering haiku e-mail newsletters to cell phone users throughout Japan in an attempt to cheer people up. This newsletter (in Japanese only) is free of charge, and one can register to receive it at http://madoka575.co.jp/mm/. 

Mayuzumi is now the leader of a project called Rediscovery and Redefining Japan, which aims to revitalize Japan through rediscovery of local culture, traditions, and history. She is also a board member of the incorporated nonprofit organization Fellowship for Camino de Santiago Japan, a future heritage board member of the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, and a councilor of the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature. 

From April 2010 to March 2011, Mayuzumi will go to France as a Japan Cultural Envoy on a program sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Official site: http://madoka575.co.jp 

Her books include:
Haiku collections
B-men no Natsu (B-side Summer) (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1994)
Kuchizuke (Kiss) (Tokyo: Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho, 1999)
Kyoto no Koi (Kyoto Romance) (Tokyo: PHP Institute, 2001)
Wasuregai (Tokyo: Bungaku no Mori, 2006) 

Others
Hoshi no Tabibito (The Pilgrim to Compostela) (Tokyo: Kobunsha, 2000)
Saranheyo (I Love you) (Tokyo: Jitsugo no Nihonsha, 2003)
Anata e no Ikku (A Haiku for You) (Tokyo: Basilico, 2008)
Sono Shunkan: Sosaku no Gemba, Hirameki no Toki (The Moment: The Flash of Inspiration during a Creative Process) (Tokyo: Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, 2010)