Kurui Dako is a late novel by Haruo Umezaki that tightly connects memories of war with postwar everyday life. Written in a tone marked by emptiness and irony, it follows how past experience unsettles present consciousness and quietly reveals human frailty and attachment.

A late Umezaki novel in which memories of war and the time of ordinary life intertwine in a search for life's absurdity.

Yokyoku-shu is an edited and annotated collection of noh chant texts by Mario Yokomichi and Akira Omote. Based on early Kanze-school chant books, it arranges and annotates the texts so they can be read, chanted, and understood structurally, opening noh both as literature and as stage art.

A major annotated volume in the Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei series that gives readers a foundation for reading noh texts.

Yokyoku-shu is an annotated edition of noh chant texts by Akira Omote and Mario Yokomichi. Drawing on early Kanze-school chant books, it presents readable texts while showing structural units and musical phrasing, clarifying how the words of noh connect with theatrical movement.

An annotated edition that links textual scholarship and noh studies, conveying both the texture of the texts and the structure of performance.

Elegant Beast and Mother represent the film work for which Kaneto Shindo was recognized as writer, original author, and filmmaker. Elegant Beast turns an apartment room into a small universe of desire and calculation, while Mother approaches family and memory to portray the weight of human life.

Kaneto Shindo's cinematic expression looks sharply at desire, family, and memory.

The Kitchen, The Maids, and The Castle were recognized as stage achievements by Bungakuza, centered on productions of modern foreign drama. Through actors' bodies and theatrical space, the works brought forward closed workplaces, relations of power and servitude, and the unsettling logic of authority.

Bungakuza productions that carried the tension of modern drama onto the Japanese stage through ensemble performance.

Juzoku is a dance piece in which the second Hanayagi Kinnosuke displayed the classical discipline and refinement of nihon buyo. Built on the forms of the Hanayagi school, it uses finely controlled gesture to suggest character and shifts of scene, bringing narrative force to classical dance.

A nihon buyo stage work that lets narrative emerge through firm form and delicate gesture.

Rainy Day is a painting in which Kinosuke Ebihara shows his distinctive sense of composition and lyricism. While retaining a plain, anti-academic sensibility, it organizes the atmosphere of rain as a rhythm across the canvas and gives an everyday scene a quiet poetic depth.

A painting by Kinosuke Ebihara that captures rain through composition and color, giving poetry to an ordinary scene.

Izumo Taisha Chonoya was a modern building designed by Kiyonori Kikutake within the sacred precincts of Izumo Taisha. Using prestressed and precast concrete, it created a broad column-free space and reinterpreted memories of ancient roofs and ridge-supporting pillars through modern technology.

A major modern building by Kiyonori Kikutake that reinterpreted sacred tradition through contemporary construction.