Bunmei Tsuchiya's "Private Commentary on the Man'yoshu" is a major work of commentary and appreciation by a poet who devoted himself to the Man'yoshu. Tracing textual readings, meanings, and the background of composition, it interprets ancient poetry in relation to the sensibility of modern tanka.

This major commentary reads Man'yo poems through a poet's eye, carefully following both word meanings and movements of feeling.

The long-standing achievement of Tanpu Hattori as a creator and mentor in modern Japanese kanshi. For the Japan Art Academy Prize, his work as a kanshi poet and his representative collection Tanpu shishu are identified as the basis of recognition.

The phrase points to Tanpu Hattori's role in sustaining the Showa-period kanshi world through poetic creation and mentorship.

"Contributions to the Poetry World" refers to the body of work for which Tatsuji Miyoshi was honored. Through lyric poetry after his first collection "Survey Ship," as well as criticism and translation, he was recognized for expanding poetic expression in modern Japanese.

This award subject is not a single book title but the accumulated poetry, criticism, and translation that Tatsuji Miyoshi left in modern poetry.

Kinichi Ishikawa's Japanese translation of Van Wyck Brooks's study of American literary history, focusing on New England literature from 1815 to 1865.

A literary-historical study that portrays the flowering of New England through writers, ideas, and regional culture.