Benji Asada's Shiosai is a Japanese-style painting recognized as an entry in the seventh Nitten exhibition. The work suggests the atmosphere of the shore and the sound of waves within a composed postwar nihonga idiom.

A nihonga work that turns the atmosphere of the shore into a quiet pictorial composition.

Hamada Kan's Sai-ike is a nihonga painting honored as a work shown at the seventh Nitten exhibition. Centered on color and the sensation of water around a pond, it joins natural quietness with a decorative pictorial structure.

A nihonga work that gathers the resonance of water and color into a quiet composition.

Junji Yoshii's Mizu-kumi is a Western-style painting shown at the forty-ninth Nika exhibition and honored together with his recent works. It can be understood as a scene of daily life that fixes the rhythm of figures and labor on the canvas.

A Western-style painting that finds the rhythm of people and daily life in the act of drawing water.

Setsuro Takahashi's Kaseki-fu is a craft work recognized as an entry in the seventh Nitten exhibition. Rooted in the artist's lacquer-based sensibility, it links the idea of ancient layers of time with decoration and material presence.

A craft work that connects the time suggested by fossils with the material presence of lacquer art.

Goho Hibino's Shimizu is a calligraphic work honored as an entry in the seventh Nitten exhibition. Through line, spacing, and letter form, it suggests the tension and clarity associated with pure water.

A calligraphic work that entrusts the feeling of clear water to line and space.

Kenjiro Maeda's Myohoji Shakado is an architectural work honored together with his broader contribution to architecture. As a religious space rooted in temple-building traditions, it reflects design dignity and the architect's accumulated practice.

A religious space where temple-building tradition meets the design skill of a modern architect.