A fiction collection by Hiroshi Sakagami. In a quiet style, it explores memory, aging, family, and attachment to place. The anchorage suggested by the title becomes an image of temporary rest and continuing motion in life.

It evokes a calm anchorage that appears along the course of a life.

A poetry collection centered on birdsong and the turning seasons, exploring visionary spaces behind everyday life. The resonance of language and conceptual tension expand natural signs into a cosmic sensibility.

Birdsong guides the reader toward a visionary space within the seasons.

This substantial study follows songs and myths from Okinawa and the Amami region to reconsider the origins of Japanese literature through folklore. It reads ancient songs, ritual practice, and the power of words as a southern source for the literary imagination.

This theatre study examines Genroku kabuki through actors, performance practice, scripts, and audience culture. Grounded in historical sources, it presents a layered account of a crucial turning point in kabuki history.

This animated film follows a Tokyo office worker who travels to rural Yamagata and faces memories of her childhood. By layering everyday detail with the countryside, it portrays the quiet uncertainty and self-discovery that can arrive in adulthood.

This theatrical trilogy by Go Kato explores figures shaped by love through the actor’s voice and body. It translates literary material into stage expression, building restrained emotion and dramatic tension.

This performance presented the inherited artistry of a nagauta shamisen family through a joint appearance by parent and child. It emphasizes classical form, stage breathing, and the weight of artistic transmission.

This stage program brought together Fusako Shida’s classical and creative work in Ryukyuan dance. Its focus lies in poised movement, musical response, and the embodied culture of Okinawa.

This exhibition presented Gyoji Nomiyama’s painting as a sustained artistic world. Through postwar experience, layers of memory, and the tension of color and form, it traced the artist’s long creative path.

A Noh performance centered on the artistry of the eighth Kanze Tetsunojo. As a commemorative program, it displayed the forms of classical performance and the maturity of the performer on stage.

The time accumulated in Noh form stands out on the commemorative stage.

A bunraku su-joruri performance by Takemoto Oridayu. Without puppets, the close interplay of narration and shamisen brings the verbal and musical force of gidayu-bushi to the foreground.

Narration and shamisen alone bring the world of bunraku to life.

A large-scale documentary account of the formation of the semiconductor industry, built from testimony by engineers and participants. The final volume centers on the race around the microprocessor and traces the path of Japan's electronics industry.

Through testimony about tiny semiconductors, the spirit of an industrial age emerges.

A story of mystery and memory surrounding a woman from Shanghai, written with Mitsuhiko Kuze's visual sensibility. Showa-era atmosphere, exoticism, and labyrinthine relationships combine to form a dreamlike world.

A woman carrying the shadow of Shanghai draws the reader into a maze of memory.

A musical stage work featuring Ran Ootori. The piece portrays fierce motherhood and the light and shadow of show business, with singing, acting, and stage presence central to the recognition.

In the stage lights, motherhood and show-business obsession intersect.

A film about the life of composer Rentaro Taki. It portrays the short life and creative passion of the Meiji-era musician with the emotional shape of a youth film.

The melodies of a short-lived composer illuminate the youth of modern Japan.

A recognized body of Noh performance centered on Kanze Tetsuyuki. While preserving classical form, the performances showed the contemporary force of Noh through stage tension and embodied expression.

Within classical form, the living breath of contemporary Noh arises.