A work centered on the Nomonhan Incident, looking at battlefield memory and the silence of soldiers. Rather than a flamboyant war chronicle, it quietly depicts what harsh experience leaves inside people.

静かなノモンハン illuminates human memory and feeling through the symbolic force carried by its title.

The Age of Dogs is a poetry collection that concentrates Taro Kitamura's urban solitude, bodily awareness, and unease with his time. In restrained language, it captures the hard texture of daily life and inner disturbance, sharply asserting individual sensation within postwar Japanese poetry.

A poetry collection that excavates the loneliness of an era through the roughness of city and body.

Yasuda Yojuro is a critical biographical study of the modern Japanese critic Yasuda Yojuro, reading his thought and literary activity within the intellectual climate from prewar to postwar Japan. It examines both his allure and danger, and how his language connected with Japanese Romanticism and critiques of modernity.

A critical study that places Yasuda Yojuro's thought and literature within modern Japan's intellectual history.

Tayu-san, Tanuki was awarded as a stage work shaped by actor Isuzu Yamada's performance. It is not a book to be read but a theatrical work in which breath, voice, and gesture bring a character's emotions to life.

An awarded stage work in which Isuzu Yamada's acting vividly brought a character's feeling to the stage.

Tokyo Trial is a documentary film built around footage of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, presenting a trial that became a starting point for postwar Japan. Through editing, Keiichi Uraoka shaped vast archival material into a cinematic experience of history.

A film that reexamines a starting point of postwar Japan through the editing of documentary footage.

The Life of Hikaru Genji was a dance and performance work by Kunie Fujii that translated the life of the central figure of The Tale of Genji into stage expression. Rather than a book explaining the plot, it focused on embodying a classical literary figure through movement and structure.

A performance work that moved a figure from The Tale of Genji onto the stage as bodily expression.

The Matsuyama Ballet's Giselle is a Japanese stage realization of the classical ballet, refined through performance. With direction and choreography by Tetsutaro Shimizu and dancers including Yoko Morishita, it lyrically presents a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and spiritual release.

A major Matsuyama Ballet production that deepened a tragic classical ballet romance in Japanese stage expression.

Keikin Hori's Iroha Uta is a work of kana calligraphy that shows an individual style grounded in tradition. Through the flow of characters, blank space, and brush movement, it reanimates the classical poem as visual art.

Kana-calligraphy tradition and distinctive brushwork turn the Iroha poem into a visual work.

GA DOCUMENT 8 is a volume in an architectural series that records contemporary architecture through photographs, drawings, and commentary. Featuring work by architects such as Arata Isozaki, Ricardo Bofill, and Hans Hollein, it provides documentary value for reading architecture in an international context.

An architectural document that records contemporary works internationally through photographs and drawings.

Sumiyoshi Mode is a performing-arts work that draws on classical Japanese cultural memory and shapes the motif of a pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi for the stage. The awarded object is not a book but a work that recreates classical atmosphere through space, movement, and narration.

A performing-arts work that stages the classical mood of a pilgrimage to Sumiyoshi.

A radio drama series that brings classic works to listeners through sound, making characters, scenes, and lingering emotion vivid by voice and production. It was recognized for translating literary works into an experience of listening.

ラジオ名作劇場シリーズ illuminates human memory and feeling through the symbolic force carried by its title.

The Influence of Foreign Films on Japanese Cinema is a comparative film-history study that traces how Japanese cinema absorbed stories, dialogue, imagery, and techniques from overseas films while shaping its own language. With indexes of films and people, it documents the traces of East-West exchange on screen.

A substantial study of how Japanese film expression grew through contact with foreign cinema.

Tayu-san, Tanuki represents Isuzu Yamada's stage achievement, bringing the atmosphere of classical performing arts and vivid characterization to the audience. The awarded work was not a book but a performance, centered on voice, movement, timing, and stage presence.

A stage work in which Isuzu Yamada's craft crystallized classical atmosphere and human feeling.