An, a worker who sorts packages at a distribution center, peeks inside a forbidden box—and from that moment, boxes begin to vanish one by one. A conveyor-belt suspense that captures the fatigue and impulses of faceless laborers, asking how one can preserve a sense of self in work that requires no individuality. A striking debut that lays bare the suffocating atmosphere of contemporary life.

The urge to tear back the tape, lift the lid, and look inside—quietly, irrevocably warping the world around her.

Returning to her hometown for the first time in a decade, the narrator hears the voice of a childhood friend who was supposed to be dead. A missing mother, an inscrutable father, a foul-mouthed grandmother—uncertain memories flood in as the familiar countryside warps into something uncanny. A stunning debut that sustains a paranoid point of view through sheer technical precision, leaving even the narrator's gender and whose existence is real deliberately unclear.

Who existed, who disappeared—nothing here is certain.

Office worker 'Pen-Pen' racks up a thousandfold payment error at work while drowning in clothes-shopping debt at home, surviving only through relentless daydreaming. When words begin to devour reality, her broken language conjures a broken landscape. A hyperreal acceleration novel born from conversations with actor Nakano Taiga.

Her broken words call forth a broken world.

In a backwater town in northern Kyushu, middle schooler Kai—who is missing half his right hand—falls under the spell of a local man called Tachibana-san while drifting with a delinquent crowd. When Tachibana-san gets into trouble with a Tokyo rapper, Kai boards a night bus alone and heads for the capital. A raw, urgent story of a boy's desperation, awarded the 60th Bungeisho Prize by unanimous consent.

A desperate runaway story of a boy burning with nowhere to go.

Reonardo, who has never left his room since birth and can't remember anything from a few days ago, begins reading 'your story,' a file on his father's laptop. The prodigiously memoried quiz champion he once was, his teammates, a linguistically gifted pedigree dog—multiple world-lines shatter the boundary between fiction and reality in this ultimate multiverse novel.

This world should be destroyed—true or false?

Twenty-five-year-old Miho takes a ¥2,000 taxi to avoid being late for a ¥7,500-a-day part-time job, scrolling alternately between a consumer finance app and a dating app. Shopping addiction, sexual dependency, broke and fighting parents, a stalker ex-classmate—the gears accelerate with a single death and hurtle toward the bottom. Praised by judge Machida Ko with 'This one hit me. It hit me hard.'

She throws away her life to live in the present, racing headlong toward the despair and hope at the very bottom.

A fantastical single night surrounding 'I,' 'Time,' and the narrator's mother in a town where women play 'womb-toss.' Every sentence from first to last is shot through with extraordinary talent. The debut work of Nishino Touki, born in 2007 and sixteen years old at the time of winning the short fiction division of the 60th Bungeisho Award.

Every sentence, from the first line to the last, carries an exceptional talent and expression.

Hiyori's body is riddled with holes that fill with liquid. Surrounded by Ikkun, who says he'll 'pierce the bottom of the hole,' and a mother who tells her to 'become a pipe,' she lives in a world of peculiar weight and moisture. This outstanding work from the 60th Bungeisho Award's short fiction division was collected with the post-debut story 'Niwa ni Tsugu' in a 2026 volume.

A world of peculiar weight and moisture that quietly pulls you under.

Jackson, who works at a fitness center inside a sports brand company, is pulled into rumors around a revenge-porn video after his QR-code T-shirt goes viral. The novel follows his search for the truth as he meets men who look just like him, in a sharp, fast-moving debut about Black-mixed lives in Tokyo.

A vivid story of revenge and resistance among Black-mixed lives in Tokyo, sparked by a QR-code T-shirt.

Shizuka and Nana live with despair as their dress code, moving between the poles of life and death armed with wordplay and punchlines. Their monologues surge forward like a current in this 59th Bungei Prize-winning novel.

Monologues of two high-school seniors who wear despair like a dress code.

Winner of the 58th Bungeisho Award, the story follows 'he' as he acquires a small mobile surveillance camera and races through the city, forcing ordinary scenes to appear alien through a machine's eye. The premise reassembles the world from an extremely small point of view, creating both lightness and unease at once.

A pair of eyes just a few centimeters above the ground changes the city's outline.

After an accident while clearing drains in Tokyo, Kuzano returns to his hometown and sets out with a camel named Cassandre for an illusory town beyond the desert. Moving between real Tokyo and a mythic desert, this epic novel portrays the time and memory that run through a family line.

Back in his hometown, Kuzano heads with a camel toward an illusory town beyond the desert.

On the night of his sixteenth birthday, Sho Mashiba meets a classmate known as “Morphine” in a park. The proud yet urgent words of high school students pass between them at the pace of their own lives.

The proud and noble words of high school students fly about at the speed of their lives.

U-chan, a nineteen-year-old student preparing to retake entrance exams, wants to save her mother, who is unwell and drinks herself into violent outbursts. Burdened by family ties and by being a woman, she leaves for Kumano carrying an urgent prayer.

To save her broken mother, U-chan sets out on a journey to Kumano.

A young man driven by the desire to become beautiful tries to change his appearance through makeup and feminine dress. In a voice that coolly examines how to present his body and receive the gaze of others, a longing for beauty intersects with violence and anxiety around sexuality.

From a desire to be beautiful, the novel reconsiders one's body and the gaze of others.

In a settlement on Japan's northeastern coast, thirty-something Takeshi runs a temporary shop with his mother. Five years after a tsunami swept away both their store and home, only a few regulars visit. Watching customers who postpone payment and the familiar gestures of business that continue unchanged, Takeshi lives with the anxiety and repetition embedded in everyday life after the disaster.

From small exchanges repeated in a temporary shop, the novel portrays everyday life and silence after a disaster.

A secret development project conceived shortly after the war aims to connect Japan and Brazil with a straight tunnel through the earth. Kazuo Suzuki, a public-relations officer for a construction subsidiary, investigates why it exists and encounters spies, migrants, technical interns, and foreign dignitaries as he approaches the history embedded in the plan. Through this outlandish undertaking, the novel portrays postwar Japan's systems and the intentions of the people caught within them.

A salaryman investigating a tunnel between Japan and Brazil draws closer to a secret that has endured since the postwar years.

Momoko, seventy-four and living alone, goes on with her days after the death of her husband and amid a sense of distance from her children. As she drinks tea and listens for mice in a quiet home, multiple inner voices speaking in the Tohoku dialect rise within her, leading her to reconsider aging, solitude, and independence.

The voices in the Tohoku dialect that rise within Momoko bring a new sense of life into her solitude.

Akiyoshi, who aims to become a boxer while living an unsettled life, is asked by his friend Haruo to visit Toko, Haruo's partner who is confined to a hospital bed. Amid sparring at the gym, growing distance from Kasumi, with whom he is having an affair, and the deaths of people close to him, Akiyoshi comes into contact with feelings he cannot fully grasp through body or words.

A coming-of-age novel where the physical sensation of boxing intersects with the time of a young man carrying the deaths of people close to him.

A second-year middle-school boy acquires Yurika, a life-sized love doll, as his own special doll. Drawn to her innocent beauty, he wants Yurika to know him and the world he lives in, but their story begins to be encroached upon by reality. This novel portrays a boy's dark impulses and awakening sexuality.

Reality quietly enters the story shared by a boy and Yurika, his life-sized doll.

Set in a fictional town watched over by a radio tower, the story quietly unfolds across more than a century, guided by the gleam of lapis lazuli.

Guided by the gleam of lapis lazuli, the story quietly unfolds.

Tokuyama, a student preparing to retake university entrance exams, meets Hatsumi at a cabaret club and receives a message saying, “Call me when you want to die.” Drawn into her accounts of cruelty and her invitation to ruin, he gradually loses his ties to everyday life.

“Call me when you want to die. Anytime.”

After failing his graduate-school entrance exam, Honma lives in his grandfather's house and writes fiction. He is unsettled when Moiparacia, the protagonist of his own story, dies beyond his intention. While caring for Altad, the boy's lizard that emerges from the manuscript, Honma keeps questioning what it means to write, create a story, and live.

A young man living with a lizard that emerged from his story moves closer to the roots of writing and living.

In an after-school classroom, two boys begin a duel in which they take turns firing loaded guns. Centered on Momose, who oversees it, the novel traces violence, isolation, and desire for others among young people in a world shadowed by war.

The duel that begins in a classroom at dusk transforms familiar daily life into a strange world charged with the presence of war.

Minami, a forty-nine-year-old freelance writer who has spent years withdrawn after her divorce, is asked by her mother to follow her suspicious father. She meets a group of women who believe in money as a deity. As Minami investigates their strange faith, she begins to set in motion a life that had been stalled by anxiety.

An encounter with people who worship money as a deity moves Minami's stalled days in an unexpected direction.

Something suddenly arrives during class, cutting the school off from the outside world. Amid falling ash, a high-school student decides to make her way home. This is a story of seeking hope in a changing world.

In a cut-off high school beneath falling ash, she sets out for home.

A middle-school boy lives with the black dog his divorced father left behind, and with it discovers an unidentified piece of flesh in the thicket of a park. As the dog, his classmate Sada, and his family become entangled, the boy's malice and unease rise with an almost tangible smell.

Around the flesh the dog digs up from the depths of the thicket, the boys' ordinary lives take on an unsettling outline.

Ririn moves to Tokyo from Hokkaido and begins his first job, where he becomes close to Sonu, a Korean resident of Japan. Having drifted through relationships without much reflection, Ririn encounters Sonu's questions of origin and identity, confronting both the invisible boundary between them and his own unawareness.

A coming-of-age novel that examines the invisible boundary between two close friends through their shared time.

Even when speaking to someone face to face, the narrator posts everything she wants to say to her blog from her phone. Through a daily life in which real conversation slips out of step with words on a screen, the novel captures the feel of a virtual age that is neither blood nor ketchup.

The narrator sends her words to a screen before speaking them, unsettling the boundary between everyday life and the internet.

Shinji, who works at a sales office, is ordered by his senior colleagues to spend his lunch break at a hospital and report on a silent daytime drama. The story he constructs from images alone intertwines with relationships at work, as the gap between seeing and hearing unsettles the daily lives of three people facing separation.

A lunchtime game of deciphering a silent daytime drama slowly changes the boundary between reality and story.

This novel follows three generations beginning with the human Buddha: his son Rahula and his grandson Tissa Metteyya. Set in ancient India, it traces the bonds and inheritances of parent and child, bringing bodies and the flow of time vividly to life.

From the Buddha to his child and then his grandchild, a family story crossing long stretches of time unfolds against the landscape of ancient India.

In a city wrapped in blue light before dawn, Takahashi, who lives on his partner's income, searches for a missing cat while looking for work. The novel portrays the impasse of everyday life with humor and urgency.

Before dawn, in a city bathed in blue, begin the days of searching for a cat and a job.

From a park that resembles a microcosm of the world, a university student narrator and his friend Onosa set out in motion. Moving from Shimoda to New York, the novel depicts young people unable to settle on a destination, with dry humor and a sense of drift.

A novel of young people without a fixed destination, beginning with a journey from a park.

A novel about three women, Mi-san, Akie-san, and the narrator, who live under the protection of Henrietta. It traces the distance and comfort between people sharing a slightly unusual life together.

A quiet, slightly unusual story of communal life shared by three women.

Marimo leaves university and begins working at a café that seems left behind by time. As she makes a habit of watching the lights in the windows across the street, the novel follows her unsettled feelings and her wanderings through the night city.

The lives visible beyond the windows quietly unsettle Marimo's world.

A coming-of-age novel about Tomomi, a middle-school student who cannot find a place at home or at school and confronts her stifling daily life through the image of a grim reaper and a machine gun that appears in her dreams.

The machine gun handed to a girl in her dreams illuminates a resistance she cannot yet put into words.

A nineteen-year-old art-school student known as "I" meets Yuri, a thirty-nine-year-old instructor, and is drawn into a relationship that resists an easy name. This love story portrays the lightness and urgency of falling for someone whose age and life are very different from one's own.

A precarious yet unforgettable time of love shared by a nineteen-year-old student and thirty-nine-year-old Yuri.

Second-year high-school student Shuji Kirigaya is popular in class while performing a persona that fits the people around him. His plan to turn the bullied transfer student Shinta Kotani into someone popular reveals the dynamics of school relationships and the fragility of the self he performs.

A coming-of-age novel set in a classroom, where a popular student sets out to “produce” a bullied transfer student.

The work titled “黒冷水” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Keisuke Hada.

an awarded work by Keisuke Hada, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

A novel about three women: a mother who has withdrawn from housework, the older daughter who supports her, and the narrator. It follows how the family lives with everyday strain while each member tries to find the right distance from the others.

A story of three women in a family, their burdens, and the everyday life that continues around them.

Kazuki's daily life is shaped by women who are both formidable and deeply lovable. As he confronts his mother's late-life romance, feelings long dormant within him begin to stir in this autobiographical novel.

An autobiographical novel about formidable yet lovable women and the emotions awakening within Kazuki.

The work titled “リレキショ” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Kou Nakamura.

an awarded work by Kou Nakamura, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “キッズ アー オールライト” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Tomohiko Okada.

an awarded work by Tomohiko Okada, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “インストール” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Risa Wataya.

an awarded work by Risa Wataya, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “メイドインジャパン” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Akira Kuroda.

an awarded work by Akira Kuroda, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “肉触” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an excellent work by Tomoka Sato.

an excellent work by Tomoka Sato, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “Tiny,tiny” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Yoriko Hamada.

an awarded work by Yoriko Hamada, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “二匹” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Maki Kashimada.

an awarded work by Maki Kashimada, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

A debut novel that captures a brief shared life between young men, threaded with the atmosphere of radio and music. Its urban awkwardness and distance leave a strong impression.

A small but unforgettable week that begins in a six-mat room.

An award-winning work set in a dense atmosphere evoking Mexico’s heat, tracing loss and the distortions of human relationships. Its vivid colors and scents linger long after reading.

Its vivid atmosphere sharpens a quiet sense of loss.

The work titled “フレア” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an excellent work by Kazumasa Oogiri.

an excellent work by Kazumasa Oogiri, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “ボディ・レンタル” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an excellent work by Ayuko Sato.

an excellent work by Ayuko Sato, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

A coming-of-age novel about a transfer student who faces loneliness in a hostile classroom and a makeshift family, and begins to endure it through a connection with a girl he meets on a telephone dating line.

A single phone call becomes the thread that slowly changes a boy’s world.

A mystery about a protagonist who loses the memory of a sudden assault and must confront the blank space in his mind amid the testimony of witnesses.

Somewhere inside the missing memory, someone keeps knocking quietly at the door.

A story about a sister and brother searching for a way to rebuild themselves after tragedy. Its quiet voice carries a sense of renewal.

Beyond the tragedy, the two keep searching for a way to live again.

A debut work marked by nostalgia and unease, notable for the young author’s sensitivity and depth of introspection.

Within the quiet prose, the inner lives of the characters gradually emerge.

A debut work that explores loss and the fragility of memory through the quiet texture of everyday life.

The contours of loss are traced through everyday life.

A cyber-apocalypse novel in which the repetition and collapse of memory dissolve the boundary between sex and death.

Each time memory unravels, the outline of the world begins to shake.

A literary work that follows the small dissonances and emotional shifts hidden beneath everyday life through 音符.

It carefully gathers the tiny shifts within everyday life.

A young man leaves the bustle of the entertainment district and, through an encounter with one girl, steps into a world of love and violence. It is a coming-of-age novel with fierce emotional force.

Love and violence rise with the same heat.

The work titled “rose” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 川本俊二.

an awarded work by 川本俊二, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “撃壌歌” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Hikaru Yoshino.

an awarded work by Hikaru Yoshino, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

A coming-of-age novel about high school students in a Shikoku town who are absorbed in rock music. Its lively prose carries the energy of music, friendship, and first love.

A summer of boys captivated by electric guitars races forward in rock and friendship.

Set in Shinjuku Ni-chome, the novel follows a boy living as a male prostitute and depicts desire and self-destruction. Its raw momentum and urban atmosphere stand out.

Desire and self-destruction intersect at urban speed.

The novel follows a woman who is both professionally successful and addicted to alcohol through a single day, told in an upbeat tempo. Its urban restlessness leaves a strong aftertaste.

Urban tension and a woman at the edge of a single day.

The work titled “少年アリス” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Mayumi Nagano.

an awarded work by Mayumi Nagano, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “汝ふたたび故郷へ帰れず” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Kazuichi Iijima.

an awarded work by Kazuichi Iijima, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

Set in the Shimanto River basin in Kochi, it follows Atsuyoshi, a shy boy growing up under the care of a poor yet warm family. Against a landscape where nature and everyday life are close, the boy’s shifting feelings from spring into summer emerge with quiet warmth.

Against the backdrop of the Shimanto River, a shy boy grows stronger.

Modeled on the Toyoda Shoji scandal, it traces a young businessman’s fall from the peak of money and desire toward ruin. The presence of a female programmer who plays at being “God” on a computer broadens the novel into a bold portrait of an era’s madness.

It races from the peak of a money game toward ruin.

A novel that traces the shadows of love and infidelity against the vivid landscape of Morocco. It was published as the winner of the 23rd Bungei Prize.

The scenery of a faraway land makes the distortions in a relationship stand out even more sharply.

A real-name baseball novel built around the premise that the winning pitcher who thrilled Koshien was actually a girl, and it follows her into the world of professional baseball. It was published as a Bungei Prize honorable mention.

Beyond the heat of the field, one girl steps into the world of professionals.

Yamada Eimi's Bungei Prize-winning debut novel follows a young woman shaken by the breakup with her Black lover, tracing the space between physical intimacy and emotional distance. Its urban atmosphere and sharp language bring the contours of loss and loneliness into clear focus.

Through bodily pleasure and an irreversible farewell, the pain of youthful feeling rises quietly to the surface.

A debut novel by Joji Atsumi published as the 1984 Bungei Prize-winning work.

It debuted as an award-winning work.

A youth novel set in Kobe that follows high-school students and their awkward distance in love.

It portrays the bittersweet relationships between high-school students.

A story about a tired woman and an innocent soul who drift through a neon-lit city and come together in the darkness by the sea.

A tired woman and an innocent soul are drawn together in the darkness by the sea.

An award-winning work that portrays the easygoing life of Katsushika Oi in a light Edo-gazetteer style.

It depicts Katsushika Oi’s easygoing life in a light Edo-gazetteer style.

Hirano Jun's early award-winning work, later published as a book by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in 1983.

An early award-winning debut.

An early award-winning piece by 寺井澄, with no confirmed standalone book edition.

An early award-winning piece by 寺井澄.

Published as an award-winning early work by ふくださち.

An early award-winning work by ふくださち.

Published as an award-winning early work by 堀田あけみ.

An early award-winning work by 堀田あけみ.

Published as an award-winning early work by 山本三鈴.

An early award-winning work by 山本三鈴.

Published as a winning short story for the Bungei Prize, it quietly depicts the sense of confinement and the strain of wanting to get out that the word ‘prisoner’ evokes. The outline of oppression gradually emerges through the temperature of the language.

A trapped voice remains in the form of a quiet song.

Published as a runner-up for the Bungei Prize, this short piece evokes the aimlessness and sense of being separated from the flock suggested by the title ‘Stray Sheep.’ A quiet unease remains as a thin margin of blank space.

The unease of a stray sheep spreads slowly.

Set in Tokyo in 1980, the novel follows Yuri, who studies at university while also working as a model, and captures the sensibility of a young generation sustained by affluence along with the uncertainty that lies beyond it. It is a sharply observed portrait of consumer society.

Within the outline of an affluent everyday life, an uncertain future is already gathering.

Published as a Bungei Prize-winning short piece, it captures fragments of a woman’s memory and feelings with a brief, glimpse-like gaze fitting the word ‘glimpse.’ Rather than the events themselves, it leaves behind fragmentary sensations.

Fragments of a woman’s gaze remain like brief flashes of light.

Published as a runner-up for the Bungei Prize, this short piece follows the air and sense of movement evoked by the words ‘south wind’ in a gentle style. Rather than major events, it stands out as a work that reads the shifting of sensation.

Each time the south wind blows, the direction of feeling changes a little.

The work titled “鳥たちの闇のみち” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 黒田宏治郎.

an awarded work by 黒田宏治郎, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “回帰点” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 小林景子.

an honorable mention by 小林景子, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “おれたちの熱い季節” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 星野光徳.

an awarded work by 星野光徳, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “狂いだすのは三月” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Takeshi Hisano.

an awarded work by Takeshi Hisano, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “北帰行” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Hidetoshi Sotooka.

an awarded work by Hidetoshi Sotooka, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “輝かしき愚者の砦” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 野村光由.

an honorable mention by 野村光由, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “世の中や” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 阿嘉誠一郎.

an awarded work by 阿嘉誠一郎, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “鬼のいる杜で” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Fuyuo Ozawa.

an awarded work by Fuyuo Ozawa, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

"あわいの構図" is a prize-winning work first presented in this award context.

Tracing the work's publication history through "あわいの構図".

"帰らざる道" is a prize-winning work first presented in this award context.

Tracing the work's publication history through "帰らざる道".

The work titled “危うい歳月” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Shuya Odaka.

an awarded work by Shuya Odaka, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “家のなか・なかの家” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 本田元弥.

an awarded work by 本田元弥, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “刻を曳く” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 後藤美奈子.

an awarded work by 後藤美奈子, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “目的補語” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 黒羽英二.

an awarded work by 黒羽英二, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “クリスマスの旅” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 小野木朝子.

an awarded work by 小野木朝子, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “鈍夜” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an award-declined entry by 野中周平.

an award-declined entry by 野中周平, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “ミチオ・カンタービレ” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Noboru Tsujihara.

an honorable mention by Noboru Tsujihara, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “家路” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Reizo Fukunaga.

an honorable mention by Reizo Fukunaga, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “凍える口” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Kim Hak Young.

an awarded work by Kim Hak Young, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “大山兵曹” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as a first-place honorable mention by 加藤敦美.

a first-place honorable mention by 加藤敦美, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “塔への道” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as a second-place honorable mention by 樟位正.

a second-place honorable mention by 樟位正, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “ミクロコスモス” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Isamitsu Kitakoji.

an honorable mention by Isamitsu Kitakoji, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “内面の都市” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Hidehiko Miwa.

an honorable mention by Hidehiko Miwa, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “葬送の朝” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Saegusa Kazuko.

an honorable mention by Saegusa Kazuko, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “鮫” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Nobuhiko Matsugi.

an awarded work by Nobuhiko Matsugi, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “見張り” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Yasuhiro Takeuchi.

an honorable mention by Yasuhiro Takeuchi, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “夜明けまで” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 八登千代.

an honorable mention by 八登千代, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “日時計の家” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as a first-place honorable mention by Giichi Fujimoto.

a first-place honorable mention by Giichi Fujimoto, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “青ひげ” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as a second-place honorable mention by 古島一雄.

a second-place honorable mention by 古島一雄, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “悲の器” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Kazumi Takahashi.

an awarded work by Kazumi Takahashi, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “嬰ヘ短調” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by Tabata Mugihiko.

an awarded work by Tabata Mugihiko, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “海辺の物語” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an awarded work by 西田喜代志.

an awarded work by 西田喜代志, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “裏切らなかった五人” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Teruhiko Tsuge.

an honorable mention by Teruhiko Tsuge, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “関係” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Meisei Gotō.

an honorable mention by Meisei Gotō, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “ナン” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 松尾忠男.

an honorable mention by 松尾忠男, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “わが夢の女” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 古島一雄.

an honorable mention by 古島一雄, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “風” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Kojin Kondo.

an honorable mention by Kojin Kondo, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “藤原國衡” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by Tadashi Matsubara.

an honorable mention by Tadashi Matsubara, recorded for the Bungei Prize.

The work titled “日本の空の下で” is listed in the official Bungei Prize archive as an honorable mention by 朴秀鴻.

an honorable mention by 朴秀鴻, recorded for the Bungei Prize.