A Noh performance by Katayama Kurouemon. It draws the tension of the classical play into a contemporary stage presence, using chant, form, and timing to show obsession and release.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A film directed by Mipo Oh. Set in Hakodate, it depicts wounded people, poverty, violence, and love through hard-edged realism. Although based on a novel, the award recognized the film direction.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A performance series centered on Tsuyoshi Shinnai and shinnai-bushi. It balances the inheritance of Edo-period narrative song and shamisen with expression that reaches present-day audiences.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A dance work by Un Yamada. Through repeated movement, ensemble work, and spatial composition, it turns images of night and the moon into abstract contemporary dance.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

The second haiku collection by Kansen Naka. Moving between everyday details and associations with ancient civilizations, it brings a wide sense of time into the brevity of haiku through wit and critical observation.

From moments of daily life, the haiku leap toward the time of megalithic civilization.

An architectural work by Tadashi Saito. By shifting away from conventional housing forms, it turns incompleteness and open margins in everyday life into architectural value.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A television drama directed by Tadashi Tanaka. Against the background of the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident, it follows a woman from Yanaka village as she gains her own voice through encounters with activists and intellectuals.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A solo rakugo performance marking Kichiya Katsuras twentieth year as a storyteller. It preserves the structure of classical rakugo while drawing listeners in through character, breath, and timing.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A project associated with Kanayo Ueda and Kamagasaki University of the Arts. Through open classes, poetry, expression, and dialogue, it turns a socially marginalized place into a site of learning and art.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.

A critical study of the intersection between Meiji literature and art. It examines how novelists saw and wrote about painting, nudes, expositions, and antiques, clarifying the relationship between modern Japanese visual culture and literary expression.

What did Meiji writers put into words through the eye of painting?

A manga series by Masashi Kishimoto. Set in a world of shinobi, it follows a lonely boys growth, friendship, inheritance, and battles across a long serialization, recognized in media arts around the time of its conclusion.

Recorded as an award-recognized artistic work rather than a standalone book.