Hokkaido Yukari-no-Hon Award
ほっかいどうゆかりのほんたいしょう
A literary award targeting books connected to Hokkaido, selected by votes from booksellers.
- Established
- 2016
- Organizer
- Hokkaido Booksellers Grand Trade Fair
- Category
- Publishing Culture and Book Culture
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around September
- Status
- Active
Description
The Hokkaido Yukari-no-Hon Award targets books connected to Hokkaido through elements like the story's setting or the author's origin. Sponsored by the Hokkaido Booksellers Grand Trade Fair, winning works are selected by votes from Hokkaido booksellers. It is an open-submission literary award covering a wide range of genres, including not only novels but also nonfiction, picture books, and comics.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Recognition as the grand prize-winning work
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voting | Hokkaido booksellers | — | — |
Related Awards
- Sake-Drinking Bookseller Award
Official Resources
https://www.jpic.or.jp/event/syoudankai/hokkaido-shoudan.htmlPast Winners
Hiraba no Tsuki is a love story about a middle-aged man and woman who reunite at a hospital shop after returning to their hometown. Rather than youthful brightness, it depicts urgent feelings shaped by aging family members, divorce, and the weariness of ordinary life.
Two people who have lived half a century meet again in their hometown and recover a quiet heat.
A historical novel tracing the life of Takeshiro Matsuura, known for naming Hokkaido, through his recollections late in life. His surveys of Ezo, his attention to the Ainu, and the strains of the transition from the late Edo period to Meiji are portrayed through the intensity of one explorer's life.
The memories of a man who walked the northern land awaken the history behind the name Hokkaido.
A picture book about an Ainu boy and the bear cub Kimurun, raised almost as milk brothers, who face separation and reunion around the iomante ritual. Set against Hokkaido's natural world, it portrays intimacy, prayer, and the return of a bear to the realm of the gods.
The days shared by the boy and the bear lead toward a ritual of sending life onward.
A novel set at a once-prominent Hokkaido newspaper, portraying the fervor of people involved in making a paper and the changes of the times. Through the newsroom, journalistic passion, and the rise and fall of an organization, it brings postwar Hokkaido history into fiction.
The heat of making a newspaper revives the memory of Hokkaido.
Set in late Meiji Hokkaido, this adventure manga follows former soldier Saichi Sugimoto and the Ainu girl Asirpa as they pursue hidden gold. It layers survival, Ainu culture, history, food, and action into a dense narrative space.
A gold-rush chase across the northern land accelerates through history and culture.
蛇行する月 is a 小説 work by 桜木紫乃 associated with the 2016 大賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.
蛇行する月 by 桜木紫乃 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.