Art Encouragement Prize for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Edition 71 (2021)
Winners
28 peopleA stage production based on Shakespeare’s history plays, with performance records featuring Kenichi Okamoto and others. No book publication could be confirmed, so no book identifiers are assigned.
A stage production based on Shakespeare’s history plays, with performance records featuring Kenichi Okamoto and others.
An award-winning stage work performed by Bungakuza, focusing on education and discrimination on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea. Performance records are available, but no standalone book edition could be confirmed.
An award-winning stage work performed by Bungakuza, focusing on education and discrimination on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea.
A film work inspired by the Wind Phone, tracing loss and recovery after the earthquake and tsunami. Since it is a film rather than a book, no book identifiers are assigned.
A film work inspired by the Wind Phone, tracing loss and recovery after the earthquake and tsunami.
The movie Umibe no Eigakan - Kinema no Tamatebako is a film by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Dozan Fujiwara 20th Anniversary Concert is a recital record marking an artist's milestone.
Kaizoku is a ballet performance by Yuriko Kajiya.
A long historical novel tracing the life of Rui, the youngest son of Mori Ogai, across Meiji through Heisei Japan.
A catalog from the Chiba City Museum of Art that traces Tatsuo Miyajima’s work from 1995 onward. It revisits his use of numbers and time through records and images.
A catalog from the Chiba City Museum of Art that traces Tatsuo Miyajima’s work from 1995 onward.
A booklet tracing twenty years of Yuki Onodera’s photographic practice, organized around the idea of a visual labyrinth. It reveals her varied methods and work that pushes beyond the frame of photography.
A booklet tracing twenty years of Yuki Onodera’s photographic practice, organized around the idea of a visual labyrinth.
An architectural project around the Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum, showing how the design responds to nature and timber structure. It reads more as a project record than a standalone book, so no book edition is confirmed.
An architectural project around the Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum, showing how the design responds to nature and timber structure.
The work is best understood in the context of stage or screen adaptation, reinterpreting the large-scale story of Saka no Ue no Kumo. No book identifiers are assigned.
The work is best understood in the context of stage or screen adaptation, reinterpreting the large-scale story of Saka no Ue no Kumo.
A commemorative arena concert celebrating a milestone in Yuzo Kayama’s career. It is not a book publication, so no identifiers are assigned.
A commemorative arena concert celebrating a milestone in Yuzo Kayama’s career.
A stage or performance work by Daisuke and Hanako Miyagawa that foregrounds the message of choosing to live forward. No book edition could be confirmed.
A stage or performance work by Daisuke and Hanako Miyagawa that foregrounds the message of choosing to live forward.
A book collecting Masahiro Miwa’s thinking and creative work, reconsidering the possibilities of music through computer music and avant-garde composition theory. It is a hybrid of practice and criticism.
A book collecting Masahiro Miwa’s thinking and creative work, reconsidering the possibilities of music through computer music and avant-garde composition theory.
A research book that traces film negotiations between Japan and China during wartime, filling an important gap in Japanese film history. It carefully reads archival material to show the relation between cinema and politics.
A research book that traces film negotiations between Japan and China during wartime, filling an important gap in Japanese film history.
Using songs, school anthems, and sing-along movements as clues, the book traces modern Japanese community and musical culture. It examines how song becomes tied to national and local memory from a social-historical perspective.
Using songs, school anthems, and sing-along movements as clues, the book traces modern Japanese community and musical culture.
The award concerns the game itself, following Mario’s adventure through the stars. Since it is not a book publication, no book identifiers are assigned.
The award concerns the game itself, following Mario’s adventure through the stars.
A stage and concert work commemorating the fifty-year milestone of Wakadaishō, tied to cultural and family memory. No book edition could be confirmed.
A stage and concert work commemorating the fifty-year milestone of Wakadaishō, tied to cultural and family memory.
DOMMUNE is a live-streaming channel and studio founded by Naohiro Ukawa and recognized as a contemporary art project.
A documentary broadcast as NNN Document '20 that reflects the long-running reporting of Hideaki Ito on radiation exposure.
ROMANCE is a cover album by Hiroji Miyamoto built from songs originally sung by female vocalists.
Anadoro is best understood as a rakugo performance by Ryutei Ichiuma, not as a standalone book.
A critical study that reconstructs Seijun Suzuki's work from unreleased scripts, key motifs, and detailed film-by-film commentary.
Kinsei Nihon no Ongaku Hyakunen is a four-volume history of Japanese music from the Meiji era through the postwar period.
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is an anime work directed by Masaaki Yuasa.