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Art Encouragement Newcomer Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology げいじゅつせんしょうもんぶかがくだいじんしんじんしょう

Edition 36 (1986)

TheatreFilmMusicDanceLiteratureFine ArtsBroadcastingPopular EntertainmentArts PromotionCriticism etc.Media Arts

Winners

2 people
Kunie Iwahashi いわはし くにえ award

A novel by Kunie Iwahashi that quietly observes marriage, aging, and daily life, tracing the loneliness and shifting affection hidden inside an intimate partnership.

A novel about the silences that remain between long-married partners and the affection that still endures.

188 pages
marriageagingdomestic lifesolitudewomen's interior lives
Takashi Funayama ふなやま たかし award

A study of Stravinsky's music and the transformation of twentieth-century composition, reading his ballets, sacred works, and neoclassical style as a mirror of the age.

A critical survey of twentieth-century music seen through Stravinsky's works.

384 pages
Stravinskytwentieth-century musiccompositionballet musicmusic history