Japan Art Academy Prize にほん げいじゅついん しょう
Edition 42 (1986)
Winners
8 peopleA sculpture by Go Takahashi depicting a dancer in a rehearsal room, emphasizing the tension and stillness of a body in training rather than a finished stage movement.
A sculpture capturing the tension held in a dancer's body during rehearsal.
A Japanese-style painting by Shuzei Seki. The title Field suggests an open landscape in which the atmosphere of nature and the stillness of place are held on the picture surface.
A Japanese-style painting of open fields and natural quiet.
A Western-style painting by Isao Hirose depicting an autumn highland scene, suggesting clear air, seasonal color, and the quiet of an open landscape.
A Western-style painting of the air and colors of an autumn highland.
Shiseki is a cast white-copper craft work by Kyuzaemon Orihara. It translates the presence of human bonds and ritual as an inner place of support into sculptural form, giving hard metal a quiet sense of prayer.
A metal form that preserves the memory of a place where people gather and pray.
Soshigo is a calligraphic work by Keito Asami. Taking words associated with the Confucian tradition as its subject, it conveys intellectual gravity through disciplined brush lines and open space.
Classical words are crystallized into a modern calligraphic work through taut brushwork.
Tsutomu Mizukami's achievement as a writer recognizes a long career devoted to people on society's margins, religion, poverty, and memories of home. Works such as Temple of the Wild Geese, The Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, Straits of Hunger, and Ryokan stand at its center.
Poverty, faith, and memories of home were transformed into fiction across a long literary life.
Kazuo Yamada's contribution to Western classical music in Japan recognizes his work as a conductor and composer who helped develop orchestral culture and supported both modern music and performance practice.
Through conducting and composition, he expanded the field of Western classical music in Japan.