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Japan Art Academy Prize にほん げいじゅついん しょう

Edition 80 (2024)

Arts

Winners

7 people
くま けんご imperial prize

V&A Dundee is the Dundee branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Scotland. Kengo Kuma designed the building to link the waterfront and the city with layered cladding that evokes a coastal landform.

A design museum linking waterfront and city through a form inspired by coastal terrain.

waterfrontdesign museumstone claddingarchitecture and city
おおや き award

North Divine Mountain is a Nihonga painting by Nori Oya inspired by Mount Eniwa beside Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido. Autumn foliage, a snow-capped mountain, and a quiet lake evoke the sacred presence of northern nature.

A Nihonga painting that places snow-capped Mount Eniwa and Lake Shikotsu beyond autumn foliage, conveying the quiet spiritual presence of a northern mountain.

Hokkaido natureLake ShikotsuMount Eniwaautumn foliagemountain spiritualityNihonga painting
Hirofumi Machida まちだ ひろふみ award

Snow Clears is a painting by Hirofumi Machida exhibited at the 10th Nitten. Set against an Austrian winter landscape and depicting a woman, it creates a quiet impression through its clear expression and harmony of form and color.

A painting that quietly brings together an Austrian winter landscape with a harmony of form and color.

Western-style paintingwinter landscapefigurecolorharmony
山岸大成 やまぎし たいせい award

Kami-gami no Za: Watatsumi is a celadon craft work by Taisei Yamagishi that gives form to a reverent prayer to Watatsumi, the deity who governs the sea. Precisely assembled slabs of porcelain clay unite the clarity of the material with a wave-like form.

A craft work that entrusts a prayer to the sea deity to the quiet, wave-like form of celadon.

Watatsumiprayer to the seaceladonKutani wareform and technique
Atsuhito Takagi たかぎ あつひと award

山ざと is an awarded work by 高木厚人.

山ざと is a work recorded in 高木厚人’s award history.

award-winning workJapanese arts
Yoko Tawada たわだ ようこ imperial prize
Natsuo Kirino きりの なつお award