Antigone was a stage production featuring Yu Aoi, bringing Sophocles' tragedy into contemporary bodily expression. The award recognized a theatrical performance, not a standalone book.

A performance that drew the questions of classical tragedy into the present through body and voice.

Hard-Core is a film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. The award recognized the director's screen work, and identifiers from source or related books cannot be used as identifiers for the awarded work.

A film that observes outsiders with strange humor and a dry gaze.

Dai Fujikura: Portrait Concert was a music program devoted to the composer's work. The award recognized a musical activity and performance, not a published book.

A concentrated portrait-style presentation of contemporary musical sound.

Naginata Yashima is a performed work associated with Anjuko Inoue's traditional stage art. The award recognized achievement in performance, not a published book.

A performance that shows tension and craft on stage while grounded in classical form.

Asia in the Mirror is a collection of fantastical stories set in places including Tibet, Taiwan, Kyoto, India, and Malaysia, where the memory of place and the power of language intertwine. It reflects real Asian landscapes while leaving the uncanny feeling of inside and outside reversing like a mirror.

The memory of place and the sound of language raise another Asia inside the mirror.

Water Garden is an architectural and landscape work by Junya Ishigami, known for arranging many trees and water surfaces to unsettle the boundary between nature and artifice. The awarded work is architecture, not a book.

Using water and trees, it creates a new landscape between nature and artifice.

Unnatural is a television drama written by Akiko Nogi. Set at an institute investigating unnatural deaths, it treats forensic inquiry, work, social issues, and human dignity as compelling entertainment. The awarded work is a script and broadcast drama, not a book.

A story about finding causes of death illuminates the unnaturalness of the society of the living.

Hatsukoi is an album by Hikaru Utada, received as a set of songs that quietly but intensely address loss, love, and maturity after the years following her debut. The awarded work is a music album, not a book.

An album that crystallizes loss and love into mature pop songs.

Yomichi ni Hi wa Kurenai is an awarded artistic and performance practice by Naoki Sugawara. It is treated as a theatrical practice involving older people and community contexts, not as a standalone literary book.

A practice that slowly raises community and bodily memory within performance.

Life and Works of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Between the Bakumatsu and Meiji Periods is a scholarly study tracing the life and work of the ukiyo-e artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Through documentary research and close analysis, it reconsiders an artist often reduced to images of blood-soaked prints.

It redraws the last ukiyo-e master as a living figure through documents and analysis.

Shuta Hasunuma: ing is a music and sound project by Shuta Hasunuma. As the title suggests, it treats the relations among sound, body, and space as something in motion.

A sound practice that rearranges music and space while keeping them in motion.