Around 1960, the avant-garde tanka poetry started to lose its impetus, due to the fact that many publishers, fearing the over-reaching influence of the avant-garde tanka poetry into societal matters, distanced themselves from this type of poetry, and also due to the loss of direction.
昭和30年代半ばには、前衛短歌は社会的影響力を持ち始めたため敬遠する出版会の動きがあったことと、方法意識が出尽くしたことから停滞した。