渡良瀬 is an award-winning work by 佐伯一麦. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

渡良瀬, an award-winning work by 佐伯一麦.

国境［完全版］ is an award-winning work by 黒川創. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

国境［完全版］, an award-winning work by 黒川創.

An autobiographical novel in which the narrator looks back on his wife, the poet Keiko Fukui, from their meeting through marriage, family life, illness, and death. Through intimate memory, it portrays artistic pride, marital strain, care, and mourning.

A concise work whose appeal lies in atmosphere, memory, and carefully observed feeling.

After his wife disappears, Ogata Takao loses work, health, and social standing, eventually serving time in prison. On his release, he walks toward the edge of the world in a stark novel about collapse, freedom, guilt, and the possibility of renewal.

A concise work whose appeal lies in atmosphere, memory, and carefully observed feeling.

A middle-aged single man unexpectedly takes care of his infant niece Nazuna. The novel quietly follows his inexperience with childcare, the support around him, and the changes brought by a small life, delicately portraying fatherhood and everyday time.

Life with a baby gradually changes one man's sense of time and the way he sees the world.

This literary biography portrays Hakushu Kitahara's life and work against the backgrounds of city, countryside, and wartime Japan. It follows works such as Jashumon, Omoide, and Akai Tori while reading the poet's magnetism and contradictions.

Hakushu's poetry and children's songs are set back into the time of Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Japan.

Tree House is a multigenerational novel centered on a family that runs the Chinese restaurant Hisui Hanten. A grandmother's unexpected return home leads to buried family records and memories of war, bringing private family history together with the movements of the twentieth century.

Memories of war buried beneath a family home surface after a grandmother's return.

Maou no Ai is a novel that reconsiders Mahatma Gandhi not as a simple great man but as a many-sided human being. Through dialogues with the dead, it traces the contradictions and strength behind his commitment to nonviolence.

The novel calls Gandhi a demon king in order to look again at the human being behind nonviolence.

母なるもの is a work by 高橋英夫. A critical work that reads literature and expression through the relations among writers, works, and their times.

母なるもの draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.

時間のかかる読書 is a work by 宮沢章夫. A critical work that reads literature and expression through the relations among writers, works, and their times.

時間のかかる読書 draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.

This work presents its subject through a compact, literary form, emphasizing memory, emotion, and the pressure of lived experience. It can be read as a piece that connects personal feeling with a wider social and cultural landscape.

A work that follows intimate emotions as they meet a larger world.

A novel about a woman facing the illness of the person she loves most, where a cancer narrative, a love story, and a family story overlap. Driven by fantasy and fierce feeling, it captures both the absurdity and the pain of days moving toward loss.

蟹と彼と私

短歌の友人 is a work by 穂村弘 selected for the 伊藤整文学賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

短歌の友人

爆心 is an award-winning work by 青来有一. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

爆心 shows the qualities for which 青来有一 was recognized in this award year.

坂口安吾 100歳の異端児 is an award-winning work by 出口裕弘. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

坂口安吾 100歳の異端児 shows the qualities for which 出口裕弘 was recognized in this award year.

A novel about two sisters in postwar turmoil who make harsh choices to preserve their home and lives. Against the background of occupied Japan, it follows family, sexuality, power, and decline with a mordant style.

A dense postwar novel about sisters trying to protect their household after defeat.

A critical biography of novelist Takeda Taijun, reading his life and works through literature, religion, China, and wartime experience. It traces the complexity of his thought and literary transformation on a broad scale.

A full-scale biography tracing the depths of Takeda Taijun's literature and thought.

Kompira is Yoriko Shono's expansive novel that fuses autobiographical elements with radical imagination, turning unease about gods, land, body, and nation into a singular life story. It borrows the frame of autobiographical fiction while mixing reality with spiritual vision.

A major Shono work in which autobiographical fiction and wild visionary force move toward Kompira.

A critical study that rereads Ihara Saikaku through the economy, pleasure quarters, and social emotions of merchant Osaka. Drawing on the texts and contemporary sources, it reconstructs a vivid image of a writer whose biography remains elusive.

A major biographical-critical work that follows Saikaku's time and place with unusual immediacy.

Set in a town in Yamagata, this large-scale novel erupts with postwar history, crime, sex, religion, and the distortions of community. Multiple events collide at once, exposing the darkness of a provincial city.

The town itself begins to speak its hidden history and desires.

A critical journey through East Asian religious culture using Fudaraku sea-crossing and Kannon worship as its guide. It traces death and salvation, femininity, shamanism, and intersections with Christianity.

From faith in a paradise beyond the sea, it reads the imagination of salvation.

容疑者の夜行列車 by 多和田葉子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

容疑者の夜行列車 by 多和田葉子 is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.

日本文学盛衰史 by Genichiro Takahashi is known as a 伊藤整文学賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

日本文学盛衰史 is an award-recognized work by Genichiro Takahashi.

青春の終焉 by Masashi Miura is known as a 伊藤整文学賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

青春の終焉 is an award-recognized work by Masashi Miura.

A novelist returns to an old family apartment after her elderly stepmother collapses, facing care, neighbors, and the layered memories of home. With a cool, moonlit gaze, the novel draws out loneliness and attachment from the smallest details of daily life.

In an old apartment under moonlight, family memory and the reality of aging quietly overlap.

This critical work rereads the Kyoto School through Tanabe Hajime and Nishida Kitaro from the perspective of contemporary thought. It presents Japanese philosophy not as a closed tradition but as a dynamic mode of thinking that resonates with structuralism and post-structuralism.

It reopens Japanese philosophy as a crossroads of modern thought.

溺レる is a work by 川上弘美. It was recognized by 伊藤整文学賞.

溺レる, recognized by 伊藤整文学賞.

モロッコ流謫 is a work by 四方田犬彦. It was recognized by 伊藤整文学賞.

モロッコ流謫, recognized by 伊藤整文学賞.

"後日の話" is a literary work by 河野 多惠子. Its publication as a book is confirmed, and it is treated as the award-winning work.

"後日の話" is recognized as a literary work.

"変身 放火論" is a literary work by 多田 道太郎. Its publication as a book is confirmed, and it is treated as the award-winning work.

"変身 放火論" is recognized as a literary work.

A major critical work that reexamines postwar Japanese self-understanding through defeat, responsibility, memory, literature, and thought.

A major critical work that reexamines postwar Japanese self-understanding through defeat, responsibility, memory, literature, and thought.

地獄は一定すみかぞかし is a 作品 by 石和鷹 and was recognized by the 伊藤整文学賞.

The title 地獄は一定すみかぞかし points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

柳田国男と近代文学 is a 作品 by 井口時男 and was recognized by the 伊藤整文学賞.

The title 柳田国男と近代文学 points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

A reflective critical work on cities, architecture, and memory.

A reflective critical work on cities, architecture, and memory.

A critical work that rereads modern Japanese literature through Sakaguchi Ango and Nakagami Kenji.

A critical work that rereads modern Japanese literature through Sakaguchi Ango and Nakagami Kenji.

風よ、空駆ける風よ is a critical or scholarly work on literature, thought, or culture. It combines close reading with contextual inquiry to show how its subject took shape.

A book that traces its subject's background and reads the meaning of expression in depth.

伊藤整 is a critical or scholarly work on literature, thought, or culture. It combines close reading with contextual inquiry to show how its subject took shape.

A book that traces its subject's background and reads the meaning of expression in depth.

悲しみの港 is a work by 小川国夫. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of ito-sei-literary-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

悲しみの港 reflects the qualities in 小川国夫's writing that drew award attention.

楽しい終末 is a work by 池澤夏樹. It was recognized in the 1994 cycle of ito-sei-literary-award; the entry summarizes the work based on confirmed publication traces.

楽しい終末 reflects the qualities in 池澤夏樹's writing that drew award attention.

十勝平野 is a literary work by 上西晴治. It was honored by the 伊藤整文学賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 上西晴治's work.

The Year of the Cliff by 日野啓三 is a Japanese literary work. 自覚症状のないまま癌を経験した著者が、小説とエッセイの境界を行き来しながら生の感覚を見つめる作品。非現実感を帯びた身体経験が、都市的で内省的な文体によって描かれる。

The Year of the Cliff distills the author's eye and style into a compact work.

Allegory no Orimono is a collection of criticism in which Jiro Kawamura moves across literature and thought to examine how symbol and allegory work. Its critical range, including the reception of Walter Benjamin, reconsiders the act of reading itself.

A book that follows the woven texture connecting literature and thought.

Michizure is the first volume of Tetsuo Miura's Mosaic short-story sequence. Through very brief stories, it builds fear, tenderness, and wavering memory into a larger pattern.

Brief stories accumulate until fear and warmth in human life emerge like a mosaic.

Mibuncho is a novel by Ryuzo Saki. Through the path of a man released after serving his prison sentence, it sharply portrays family registry, solitude, and relations with society.

A novel that questions the boundary between individual and society through a man forced to live alone.

A novel asking how a person can accept unbearable grief and go on living afterward. It brings together Kenzaburo Oe’s characteristic ethical questioning with his attention to family and community.

It quietly keeps asking what it means to go on living while carrying grief.

A collection of essays that examines human life through themes such as food, love, friendship, body, sex, money, family, the foreign, evil, beauty, mind, and death. Combining personal experience with literary reflection, it treats life not as abstraction but as an urgent question.

Through twelve themes, these essays face the question of what life is.