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Art Encouragement Prize for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Edition 59 (2009)

TheatreFilmMusicDanceLiteratureArtBroadcastingPopular EntertainmentArts PromotionCriticismMedia ArtsFine Arts AFine Arts B

Winners

21 people
Keishi Nagi なぎ かし award

A collection of stories about mountain walking in the latter half of life and the tenderness of passing time, leaving a clear aftertaste like wind over a ridge.

草すべりその他の短篇 is an award-winning work by 南木佳士, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

251 pages
mountain walkingagingreunion
Tokita Norio ときた のりお award

A work grounded in Tokachi's landscape and daily life, shaped by a poet's gaze toward Mount Poroshiri and by language rooted in place and season.

ポロシリ is an award-winning work by 時田則雄, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

tankaTokachinature
Yōjirō Ishii いしい ようじろう award

A critical biography of Isidore Ducasse, known as Lautreamont, reading his life and works through movement, language, and cultural doubleness.

ロートレアモン 越境と創造 is an award-winning work by 石井洋二郎, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

600 pages
French literaturecritical biographyborder crossing
Kaitaro Tsuno つの かいたろう award

A nonfiction work confronting choreographer Jerome Robbins's past as an informer and tracing the tensions among art, politics, and Cold War America.

ジェローム・ロビンスが死んだ is an award-winning work by 津野海太郎, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

413 pages
danceCold Warcritical biography
Wui-Sin Chong (Tei Yoshinobu) てい よしのぶ award

A play and novel about a Korean family in Japan running a small yakiniku restaurant during the high-growth era, portraying conflict, affection, and the shadowed underside of postwar Japan.

焼肉ドラゴン is an award-winning work by 鄭義信, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

192 pages
familyKoreans in Japanpostwar life
Yojiro Takita たきた ようじろう award

A film about a former cellist who becomes a ritual mortician, placing the beauty of care for the dead alongside the recovery of the living and of family bonds.

おくりびと is an award-winning work by 滝田洋二郎, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

filmritual mortuary carefamily
Shunsaku Ikehata いけばた しゅんさく award

A television drama set against Hiroshima, quietly observing memory and turning points in life while drawing out the emotions of people living after the war.

帽子 is an award-winning work by 池端俊策, attentive to memory and relationships beneath its subject matter.

television dramaHiroshimamemory
Yukichi Matsumoto まつもと ゆうきち award
Kyoko Koizumi こいずみ きょうこ award
花柳基 はなやぎ もと award
Katsura Bunchin かつら ぶんちん award
Sakai Matsumichi さかい まつみち award
Masaaki Suzuki すずき まさあき award
Hana Sakai さかい はな award
Katsura Funakoshi ふなこし かつら award
Takeshi Mizukoshi みずこし たけし award
Kazumasa Oda おだ かずまさ award
加藤種男 かとう たねお award
Toshio Iwai いわい としお award
Yojirō Ishii いしい ようじろう award
Wui-Sin Chong てい ぎしん award