Japanese Literary Awards

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Akutagawa Prize あくたがわりゅうのすけしょう

Edition 125 (2001)

Pure literatureNew talent awardShort story / Medium-length story

Winners

1 people
Genyu Munehisa げんゆう むねひさ award

中陰の花 by 玄侑宗久 is a work that sets Buddhist imagination and daily life side by side, following the fragile boundary between the living and the dead.

Between mourning and release, the living encounter death as an intimate presence.

173 pages
Buddhismmourninglife and death