Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう
Edition 14 (1941, held 2 times in year)
Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story
Winners
1 peopleYoshiko Shibaki's Seika no Ichi is a novel set in Tokyo's Tsukiji produce market during wartime, portraying the lives of people working under economic controls. It received the fourteenth Akutagawa Prize in 1941.
The tension of an age of controls enters the lives of people working in a wartime produce market.
Tsukiji marketwartime everyday lifeworking womenurban lifeShōwa literature