Tsukikage no Michi is a Japanese-style painting by Kazuho Hieda. In a quiet atmosphere suggestive of moonlight, it layers the depth of a path with the presence of nature.

The quiet of moonlight and the depth of the road gently guide the eye toward nature.

Tsunero Kokuryo's Call is an oil painting recognized through its exhibition at Nitten. It condenses the artist's late concerns, placing human solitude and a sense of prayer within a quiet space suggestive of dunes and shoreline.

An oil painting that lets a human voice resonate from within the stillness of a sandy landscape.

Rokuya Nagae's Sand Dune received the Japan Art Academy Prize as a sculpture shown at the 22nd Nitten exhibition. It can be seen as a form that transfers the mass of body and nature into sculptural structure, holding a quiet tension.

A sculpture that turns the form of a dune into mass and stillness.

Ryuzan Aoki's Dance of Desert Sand received the Japan Art Academy Prize as a ceramic work shown at the 22nd Nitten exhibition. It uses porcelain form and deep fired color to create a sculptural presence beyond the vessel.

A ceramic work that holds desert-like motion within form through surface and depth of color.

Setsunan Kondo's Xue Tao Poems is a calligraphic work based on poems by the Tang poet Xue Tao. Created for the 22nd reorganized Nitten exhibition, it received the Japan Art Academy Prize for uniting poetic elegance with the force of the brush.

A calligraphic work that layers poetic elegance with brush movement, crystallizing respect for the classics in modern calligraphy.

Masao Nakamura's Seiu-tei in Shirotori Park is a public tea house in Nagoya's Shirotori Garden. Grounded in his research and practice in sukiya architecture, it was valued for opening the tea ceremony space into a modern public setting.

An architectural work that joins sukiya knowledge to a public tea house, creating tea-ceremony time within a garden.

Saku Sato received the Imperial Prize and Japan Art Academy Prize for his long-standing work introducing French literature to Japanese readers through criticism and translation. The award recognized a career spanning scholarship, criticism, and translation rather than a single work.

A career that contributed deeply to Japanese reading culture through criticism and translation of French literature.

Atsuko Azuma received the Japan Art Academy Prize for her international activity as a vocalist. Her career as an opera singer brought experience from European and American stages back into the Japanese vocal music world.

A career that connected vocal expression refined on international stages to Japan's opera culture.

Reibo Aoki received the Japan Art Academy Prize for distinguished performance as a Kinko-ryu shakuhachi player. He joined the spirituality of classical honkyoku with stage sound, strengthening the presence of shakuhachi music.

A performance career that brought classical shakuhachi to modern stages through breath and tone.

Kiyomoto Eizaburo received the Japan Art Academy Prize for his long achievement as a shamisen player in Kiyomoto-bushi. He refined the musicality that supports kabuki dance by aligning it with the breath of the stage.

A performance career in Kiyomoto shamisen that supported the feeling and pace of kabuki dance.

Bando Mitsugoro received the 47th Japan Art Academy Prize for kabuki performance and choreography. His work was valued for joining classical form with dance and dramatic psychology.

A stage achievement that joined kabuki form with physical expression and gave classical repertory vivid life.

Nishikawa Senzo received the Japan Art Academy Prize for his long service to Japanese dance as head of the Nishikawa school. Through the transmission of classical dance and sustained performance activity, he contributed to the wider development of the field.

The achievement of a dancer who carried the Nishikawa tradition and worked for the transmission and renewal of classical Japanese dance.