A novel that portrays the strength of art and life through Munakata Shiko’s work and the gaze of his wife, Chiya.

The force of printmaking and the time of a married couple bloom into a single story.

『陽だまりの果て』は、大濱普美子による幻想短編集で、記憶や生と死の境を往還する六篇を収録する。

Hidamari no Hate is a fantasy short-story collection by Fumiko Oohama, containing six stories that move across memory and the boundary between life and death.

"姉の島" is a 受賞 work from the Izumi Kyoka Literary Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Izumi Kyoka Literary Award 2021-1.

A long novel that reconstructs the life of Ariwara no Narihira by weaving in episodes from Ise monogatari.

It re-creates the classical narrative world as a biography of Narihira.

Hiyoko Taiyo is a linked story collection centered on a writer-narrator who cannot write, as delusion, suicidal ideation, and a request to find a missing person begin to entwine. Shinya Tanaka depicts a precarious everyday life poised between fact and fiction with his characteristic tenacity.

A writer's unblinking gaze at his own inability to write tilts everyday life toward delusion and the temptation of death.

Tobu Kujaku is a work of fantastic fiction set in a world where fire has become difficult to kindle. A garden tea gathering, women who carry fire, peacocks, serpents, and underground spaces are linked through dense language and a fragmentary structure, drawing readers into an uncanny world. It won the Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize, the Japan SF Grand Prize, and an Art Encouragement Prize.

In a world where fire resists burning, peacocks, serpents, and human memory draw a map of fantasy.

"Saiai no Kodomo" is a novel set among classmates at the upper division of private Tamamo Academy, where Hinatsu, Mashio, and Utsuho are watched as a self-made "family." The balance among two girls who appear almost like a married couple and a third who joins them like a child is depicted as a relationship that cannot be reduced to romance, friendship, or family.

A story of relationships that resist naming, told through classmates watching a makeshift family of three high school girls.

大きな鳥にさらわれないよう is a 小説 work by 川上弘美 associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

大きな鳥にさらわれないよう by 川上弘美 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

Meido Ari is Mayumi Nagano's novel set around Mikawashima in Tokyo, tracing family history that emerges after the narrator's father dies. It layers vanishing Showa-era landscapes with personal history, drawing out memories of war and family secrets in a quiet voice.

A story that begins with a father's death and follows family memory through the landscapes of the Showa era.

Koppu is Katsuyuki Shinohara's linked collection, rough-edged and humorous in its treatment of life, family, place, and art. Mountain living, work with iron, aging, and memory intersect in a powerful personal gaze at life and death.

A linked collection that faces life and death through iron, mountains, and family memory.

妻が椎茸だったころ is an award-winning work by 中島京子. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

妻が椎茸だったころ, an award-winning work by 中島京子.

たまもの is an award-winning work by 小池昌代. It brings together the author's concerns and stylistic qualities in a form recognized by the prize jury.

たまもの, an award-winning work by 小池昌代.

A collection that moves across past and present, distance and memory, bringing together stories in which time, place, and human presence shift with quiet strangeness. Its restrained prose invites readers to sense history and the present as overlapping layers.

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

This story collection depicts darkness opening beside ordinary life through the unease and fear of different characters. Unborn children, memories, and unstable boundaries lead toward the uncanny while retaining the texture of reality.

The darkness people tried not to see suddenly looks back.

Fukei is an autobiographical short-story collection by Jakucho Setouchi, based on her memories and life. Stories such as one in which an old destructive love resurfaces after an award, and another about the emotional unrest before taking Buddhist vows, quietly examine age, memory, and traces of love.

From the vantage point of old age, this autobiographical collection looks back at landscapes of love and memory that do not fade.

Set in the Genroku era, this historical novel follows Tsugaru Uneme, author of an early angling manual, and the samurai and townspeople drawn to fishing. In a time shaped by the laws of compassion for living things, fishing, waiting, and living become quietly intertwined.

Beyond the cast of a fishing rod, the obsessions and freedoms of Edo lives come into view.

河原者ノススメ is a work by 篠田正浩. A nonfiction work that examines history and society, tracing forces beneath institutions and culture.

河原者ノススメ 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.

草すべり、その他の短篇 is a work by 南木佳士 selected for the 泉鏡花文学賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

草すべり、その他の短篇

ぶるうらんど is a work by 横尾忠則 selected for the 泉鏡花文学賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

ぶるうらんど

道元禅師 is an award-winning work by 立松和平. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

道元禅師 shows the qualities for which 立松和平 was recognized in this award year.

鏡花恋唄 is an award-winning work by 大鷹不二雄. It presents its subject through a concise literary frame, focusing on voice, atmosphere, and the emotional movement of the characters or speaker.

鏡花恋唄 shows the qualities for which 大鷹不二雄 was recognized in this award year.

A critical work that rereads Matsuo Basho not as a sanctified haiku master but as a flesh-and-blood figure of desire and strategy. It presents the innovation of haikai without separating it from the vulgar and the dangerous.

A bold challenge to the image of Basho, illuminating haikai's force from its worldly side.

A novel set in Calcutta, where tropical fragrance and fantasy mingle. Guided by the image of a bird that must keep flying because it has no legs, the nocturnal journey blurs the line between paradise and hell.

A visionary journey toward the end of night, adorned with the flowers of the tropics.

A novel about the brief time shared by a man working at a facility and a mysterious creature called Brahman. Through contact with an almost unnameable being, loss and tenderness quietly emerge.

An indefinable creature gently touches the narrator's solitude.

A novel about a woman scholar pursuing the mystery of a lost chapter of The Tale of Genji, blending romance, classical literature, and stylistic play.

A novel about a woman scholar pursuing the mystery of a lost chapter of The Tale of Genji, blending romance, classical literature, and stylistic play.

A long novel that uses the lives and deaths of women from an elite school to examine beauty, class, sexuality, and resentment.

A long novel that uses the lives and deaths of women from an elite school to examine beauty, class, sexuality, and resentment.

This 泉鏡花文学賞 entry recognizes Akiyuki Nosaka's body of work, highlighting sustained contributions to literature and the arts.

文壇に至る作家としての業績 is an award-recognized work by Akiyuki Nosaka.

A novel in diary form that follows writers modeled on Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Kikuchi Kan, and Kojima Masajiro, tracing the literary world of the Taisho period and the end of youth. Kuze Mitsuhiko evokes an era of brilliance and shadow with elegiac refinement.

It records the fading time of Taisho alongside the youth of its writers.

This fantastical novel summons Mori Mari into a forest of print as “Mori-musume,” where the writer-narrator is drawn into and unsettled by her image. It turns an encounter with a literary dead into variations of cats, woods, and verbal labyrinths.

The dead are reborn inside books, and the writer meets that voice in a forest of print.

ヒナギクのお茶の場合 is a work by 多和田葉子. It was recognized by 泉鏡花文学賞.

ヒナギクのお茶の場合, recognized by 泉鏡花文学賞.

"箱の夫" is a literary work by 吉田友子. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"箱の夫" is recognized as a literary work.

"「ネオ・ラビリントス」シリーズ" is a literary work by 種村 季弘. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.

"「ネオ・ラビリントス」シリーズ" is recognized as a literary work.

A biographical work on senryu poet Kishimoto Suifu, illuminating Osaka culture, humor, verbal art, and modern popular literature.

A biographical work on senryu poet Kishimoto Suifu, illuminating Osaka culture, humor, verbal art, and modern popular literature.

鎌倉のおばさん is a 作品 by 村松友視 and was recognized by the 泉鏡花文学賞.

The title 鎌倉のおばさん points to the scene or question at the center of the work.

嗤う伊右衛門 is a work by 京極夏彦 associated with the 泉鏡花文学賞. It was recognized in a literary award context and is presented as a work centered on the concerns suggested by its title.

Recognized by the 泉鏡花文学賞, 嗤う伊右衛門 draws readers in through the impression created by its title.

A novel that intensely portrays loneliness, dependence, and pain within the family.

A novel that intensely portrays loneliness, dependence, and pain within the family.

A novel that depicts desire and relationships with bold narration and vivid sensuality.

A novel that depicts desire and relationships with bold narration and vivid sensuality.

夢の方位 is a literary work recognized by an award. Through character choices, the atmosphere of time and place, and shifts in feeling, it conveys the author's central concerns.

A work in which the author's themes emerge through characters and the atmosphere of their time.

喪服の子 is a literary work by 山本道子. It was honored by the 泉鏡花文学賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 山本道子's work.

Kakeru Shonen is a collection centered on a young man tracing the life of his late father, where family memory and his own present intersect. With fresh sensitivity, it depicts youthful restlessness and a gaze turned toward the past.

A young man follows his father’s life through family records, and his journey unfolds with quiet urgency.

Higan Sensei is a novel that boldly rearranges memories and icons surrounding Natsume Soseki, relativizing the authority of modern literature through irony and play. Masahiko Shimada’s intellectual wit turns literary history itself into narrative material.

A work that dismantles the image of Soseki while lightly connecting literary history with contemporary fiction.

Odoro, Maya is a novel by Ui Angel. Centered on a mother who suddenly loses her daughter, it portrays cross-border family ties and the unavoidable pain of loss.

As a requiem for a young daughter, the novel directly portrays family conflict and the pain of loss.

A late collection by Jokichi Hikage in which dreams, memory, and the uncanny emerge through cracks in ordinary life.

From the bottom of an old everyday world, dream and strangeness begin to move.

A novel that depicts lives shaken by the winds of the age through the conversations and presences of people gathered in a bar. Against an unsettled atmosphere, aging, solitude, and distance between people emerge.

Behind the murmur of the bar, the lonely time of its people comes into view.

A linked historical fiction series set in Fukagawa, Edo, portraying the lives and feelings of people who pass through a gatekeeper's hut. Warmth of common life is gently layered with the sadness carried from the past.

At a small gatekeeper's hut in Fukagawa, people's pasts and feelings gather.

折鶴 is a work by 泡坂妻夫 selected in the 1988 cycle of 泉鏡花文学賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

折鶴 by 泡坂妻夫, recognized by 泉鏡花文学賞.

ムーンライト・シャドウ is a work by 吉本ばなな selected in the 1988 cycle of 泉鏡花文学賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

ムーンライト・シャドウ by 吉本ばなな, recognized by 泉鏡花文学賞.

アマノン国往還記 is a 長編小説 by 倉橋由美子. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.

アマノン国往還記 condenses the qualities of 倉橋由美子's work in the form of a 長編小説.

シュージの放浪 is a 長編小説 by 朝稲日出夫. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.

シュージの放浪 condenses the qualities of 朝稲日出夫's work in the form of a 長編小説.

A novel by Mizuko Masuda that follows a graduate student and a young woman living like solitary cells, exploring the impossibility of coexistence and the fundamental solitude of human beings.

A quiet experimental novel about the coexistence and separation of two solitary people.

殺意の風景 is a narrative work by 宮脇俊三. It follows personal choices and relationships against a social and historical backdrop, giving readers both plot movement and a sense of lived atmosphere.

殺意の風景 conveys the qualities recognized at the time of the award through its period context, expression, and reach to readers.

Representative prizewinning works of Baku Akae’s fantastic fiction. Free-ranging images around straits and a modern echo of Lafcadio Hearn’s ghostly world create an eerie, sensuous aftertaste.

The uncanny and the modern intersect, and the story shimmers across time and space.

鬼どもの夜は深い by 三枝和子 is a 小説 that presents its subject through careful observation and controlled language. It draws readers into the emotional pressure behind its images while keeping the focus on the work itself.

鬼どもの夜は深い is an important 小説 for understanding 三枝和子's literary world.

光る女 by 小檜山博 is a 小説 that presents its subject through careful observation and controlled language. It draws readers into the emotional pressure behind its images while keeping the focus on the work itself.

光る女 is an important 小説 for understanding 小檜山博's literary world.

抱擁 by 日野啓三 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

抱擁 is one of the works associated with 日野啓三's award record.

唐草物語 by 澁澤龍彦 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

唐草物語 is one of the works associated with 澁澤龍彦's award record.

虚人たち by 筒井康隆 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

虚人たち is one of the works associated with 筒井康隆's award record.

Waga Tamashii wa Kagayaku Mizu Nari: Genpei Hokuetsu Ryushi is a play in which Kunio Shimizu reimagines the northern Echigo front of the Genpei conflict through the language of modern theatre. The voices and bodies of history's defeated figures emerge in poetic, forceful dialogue charged with the memory of war and the passions of those moving toward ruin.

The play calls the Genpei wars back to the modern stage through defeated voices and the shimmer of water.

A novel in which the seventeen-year-old Ruiko leaves her sick mother and collapsing home to travel toward Mizumiya, where her aunt is said to live, moving through snowstorm and fantasy.

In a blizzard, a girl sets out alone for the crystal mansion of Mizumiya.

消滅の光輪 is an award-recognized work by 眉村卓. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.

消滅の光輪 conveys 眉村卓's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.

プラトン的恋愛 is an award-recognized work by 金井美恵子. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.

プラトン的恋愛 conveys 金井美恵子's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.

海星・河童 is an award-recognized work by 唐十郎. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.

海星・河童 conveys 唐十郎's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.

Strange Visitors' Register is a linked story collection by Takehiro Irokawa, depicting odd people and memories that appear in the gaps of everyday life. Postwar disorder, outlaw sensibility, and uncanny encounters form the author's singular world.

From cracks in everyday life, strange and unforgettable visitors appear.

Bed in the Grass is a collection by Yuko Tsushima that depicts women's friendship, attachment to a former lover, and the dark movement of sex and love through intense bodily sensation. The image of deep blue grass leads the reader into a marshland of loneliness and desire.

Within the swell of grass, women's loneliness and desire begin to crack.

誘惑者 is a 長編小説 by 高橋たか子. Recognized by the prize, it presents the author's literary voice within its period.

A 長編小説 recognized in the context of 泉鏡花文学賞受賞作.

Amai Mitsu no Heya is a novel in which Mari Mori's aesthetic intensity and dreamlike imagination are fully crystallized. Sensuous detail, attachment to paternal presence, and the sweetness of enclosed rooms create a literary space slightly removed from ordinary reality.

A sweet, enclosed room fills with fantasies of love and solitude.

悪夢の骨牌 is a literary work by 中井英夫. It is recognized as a winning work of the 泉鏡花文学賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.

悪夢の骨牌 offers an entry point into 中井英夫's literary expression through the context of the 泉鏡花文学賞.

産霊山秘録 is a literary work by 半村良. It is recognized as a winning work of the 泉鏡花文学賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.

産霊山秘録 offers an entry point into 半村良's literary expression through the context of the 泉鏡花文学賞.

翔ぶ影 is a literary work by 森内俊雄. It is recognized as a winning work of the 泉鏡花文学賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.

翔ぶ影 offers an entry point into 森内俊雄's literary expression through the context of the 泉鏡花文学賞.