A novel by Hino Keizo that evokes Yumenoshima, the reclaimed landfill area of Tokyo, to layer postwar urban space, memory, and bodily unease. Realistic scenery opens into inner desolation and the fantastic.

From an abandoned urban place, memory and fantasy begin to rise.

A volume of Naka Taro's poetic prose and diary-like writing. It records daily thought in composed language, quietly crossing the poet's inner life with reading and seasonal perception.

Daily reflections quietly accumulate as a poet's language.

A critical work by Saeki Shoichi that treats autobiography as a central problem of modern literature. It examines the act of self-narration as an intersection of personal history, literary form, and the spirit of the age.

It reads the spirit of modern literature through the form of narrating the self.

Noguchi Takehiko rereads The Tale of Genji through Edo-period interpretation and commentary culture. Rather than treating the classic as fixed, he presents it as a living text reshaped by later readers.

Through the eyes of Edo readers, The Tale of Genji takes on another form.

A classic kabuki play based on the Date clan succession disturbances. Centered on the wet nurse Masaoka, it interweaves loyalty, motherhood, and intrigue, and has long been valued as a major role for onnagata acting.

Loyalty and maternal feeling are compressed into Masaoka's silence and gesture.

A film by director Yanagimachi Mitsuo. Set in a landscape reminiscent of Kumano, it depicts a dense world where nature, community, and male impulse collide, placing ritual and violence side by side.

Fire, sea, and mountain illuminate impulses sleeping inside the community.

A television drama written by Yamada Taichi. It looks at aging, family, and the later years of life, using quiet conversation and restrained direction to portray the temperature of human relationships.

As time turns toward winter, people face their families and the lives they have lived.

A choral and orchestral work by Miyoshi Akira. With sharp sonorities and dense structure, it expresses prayer for the dead and postwar pain, and is regarded as an important work in modern Japanese music.

Prayer and pain crystallize in the sound of chorus and orchestra.

A dance work by Fujikage Shizue. It translates literary motifs and images of women into bodily expression, placing emotion and afterglow within restrained movement.

The atmosphere of narrative quietly rises through dance gesture.

A body of photographic work by Kinoshita Akira. It captures conductors and performers not only in the glamour of the stage but also in the bodily concentration with which they face music.

In the body before and after sound, the performer's spirit appears.

A visual artwork by Shoji Fuku. It can be read as an image that lets layers of time and memory settle into a quiet arrangement of color and form.

Time itself is rendered as a presence sinking into the depth of the image.

A classic joruri and kabuki play rooted in legends around Minamoto no Yoshinaka. Obligation, revenge, and parent-child feeling overlap, and the performance builds tragic tension through narration and gesture.

Classical narration carves the conflict between duty and feeling onto the stage.

A jazz performance project by Watanabe Sadao. It foregrounds the singing quality of his saxophone and the momentum of the band as a strongly live-oriented work.

The saxophone's lyricism expands with the heat of the band.

A critical work by Saeki Shoichi that treats autobiography as a central problem of modern literature. It examines the act of self-narration as an intersection of personal history, literary form, and the spirit of the age.

It reads the spirit of modern literature through the form of narrating the self.

A classic kabuki play based on the Date clan succession disturbances. Centered on the wet nurse Masaoka, it interweaves loyalty, motherhood, and intrigue, and has long been valued as a major role for onnagata acting.

Loyalty and maternal feeling are compressed into Masaoka's silence and gesture.

A film by director Yanagimachi Mitsuo. Set in a landscape reminiscent of Kumano, it depicts a dense world where nature, community, and male impulse collide, placing ritual and violence side by side.

Fire, sea, and mountain illuminate impulses sleeping inside the community.

A television drama written by Yamada Taichi. It looks at aging, family, and the later years of life, using quiet conversation and restrained direction to portray the temperature of human relationships.

As time turns toward winter, people face their families and the lives they have lived.

A body of photographic work by Kinoshita Akira. It captures conductors and performers not only in the glamour of the stage but also in the bodily concentration with which they face music.

In the body before and after sound, the performer's spirit appears.

A classic joruri and kabuki play rooted in legends around Minamoto no Yoshinaka. Obligation, revenge, and parent-child feeling overlap, and the performance builds tragic tension through narration and gesture.

Classical narration carves the conflict between duty and feeling onto the stage.