Hokkaido Yukari-no-Hon Award ほっかいどうゆかりのほんたいしょう
Edition 2 (2017)
NovelsNonfictionArt booksPicture booksComics
Winners
2 peopleA 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.
429 pages
Hokkaidonewspapersregional pressjournalismpostwar history
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.
188 pages
HokkaidoAinu cultureadventureMeiji erasurvival