Ningen no Unmei is a long novel that follows the inner life of a Japanese protagonist across the turbulent Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras. Through family, hometown, learning, and social change, it traces modern Japan from within one person’s struggle to keep faith with an ideal.

A sweeping novel about how a person endures hardship and preserves an ideal amid the broad currents of modern history.

Hojo Hideji Gikyoku Senshu is an eight-volume collection of representative plays by Hideji Hojo. It brings together the work of a playwright active across shinpa, Shinkokugeki, kabuki, and related stages, showing his talent for joining human feeling to theatrical moments.

A collected edition of representative plays by a playwright whose work helped shape a part of postwar Japanese theatre.

Koge is a two-part literary film directed and written by Keisuke Kinoshita from Sawako Ariyoshi’s novel. It follows a widowed mother and the daughter whose life is shaped by her mother’s choices, layering family feeling, poverty, and the ways women survive.

A literary film in which love, vanity, poverty, and dependence intertwine across a mother and daughter’s long years.

Ito Ko is confirmed as the awarded biwa performance by Kyokusho Hirata. Through narration and performance centered on a historical figure, it can be understood as a work that brings the epic and dramatic qualities of biwa music to the stage.

A performance work that uses biwa narration and sound to create epic tension around a historical figure.

Kyu by Tatsuo Takayama is a nihonga painting whose title suggests the vault of the sky. In color on paper, it presents an inward night landscape, where moonlight, trees, and a strangely bright space create a quiet intensity beyond simple observation.

A nihonga work that quietly evokes a world perceived through night sky and moonlight.

Wankyumichiyuki, Part One by Tsuya Miyako is recorded as an awarded narrative performance in the Icchubushi Miyako line. It presents the Wankyu subject, with its atmosphere of love and madness, through vocal phrasing and the movement of words.

An Icchubushi narration that brings the love and madness of the Wankyu tradition onto the stage.