Japan Children’s Literature Association Award
にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいしょう
The Japan Children’s Literature Association (a public interest incorporated association) awards outstanding single-volume books in children’s literature creative works, criticism, and research every year.
- Established
- 1961
- Organizer
- Japan Children’s Literature Association
- Category
- Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around April–May
- Status
- Active
Description
The Japan Children’s Literature Association Award is presented annually by the Japan Children’s Literature Association (a public interest incorporated association) to outstanding single-volume books in children’s literature creative works, criticism, and research published from January to December of the previous year.
Related Awards
- Japan Children’s Literature Association Newcomer Award
- Mitsukoshi Sakahito Boys’ Poetry Award
- Japan Children’s Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award
- Long Children’s Fiction Newcomer Award
Official Resources
https://jibunkyo.or.jp/Past Winners
『夜叉神川』は、川の上流から海へと続く五つの物語を収めた安東みきえの短編集。
Yashajin-gawa is a short-story collection by Mikie Ando, gathering five stories that move from the upper reaches of the river down to the sea.
『オイモはときどきいなくなる』は、犬のオイモがときどき姿を消す不思議な日常を描く田中哲弥の創作童話。
Oimo wa Tokidoki Inakunaru is a children’s story by Tetsuya Tanaka about the mysterious everyday life of a dog named Oimo who disappears from time to time.
トンボ(アキアカネ)を題材に、日本の自然と文化を繋ぐ視点でまとめた著作。児童文学者協会賞を受賞。
万葉と令和をつなぐアキアカネ
A coming-of-age novel set in an Italian town about a boy choosing whether to continue pursuing music.
In a world where talent alone is not enough, a boy chooses his own path forward.
Mukogishi is a work of children's literature about Kazuma, who transfers to a public junior high school after failing to keep up at an elite school, and Itsuki, who lives with her family on public assistance. Beginning from mutual incomprehension, the novel examines poverty and inequality from the perspective of junior high school students and searches for ways to face them.
As each learns the pain of someone they thought was on the far shore, their worlds begin to change.
Konpira Inu is a children's novel about the custom of sending a dog to make a pilgrimage from Edo to Konpira in Sanuki on behalf of its owner. Mutsuki, a dog devoted to his owner Yayoi, travels through encounters that convey a time when faith and everyday life were closely connected.
A carefully researched historical children's novel in which Mutsuki the dog travels from Edo to Konpira.
The Junior High Fledgling trilogy follows Narita Tetsuo, known as Tetsuo, as he moves from the end of elementary school into junior high. With humor and a lived-in Kansai voice, it traces his anxiety at entering a different school from his friends and the way club activities, the PR committee, and the school festival change how he sees his new world.
Even a hesitant boy can become a junior high student. This trilogy follows Tetsuo through a school life full of firsts.
トンヤンクイがやってきた is a 小説 work by 岡崎ひでたか associated with the 2016 受賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.
トンヤンクイがやってきた by 岡崎ひでたか is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.
あひるの手紙 by 朽木祥 is introduced here as a work centered on 児童文学, 手紙. The story and background are summarized from publisher, library, and award information checked during research.
A work in which 児童文学 shapes the reader's path into the story.
星(詩集) is a work by 武鹿悦子, recorded here as a 受賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.
A concise profile of 星(詩集) by 武鹿悦子, including award and bibliographic context.
Charshu no Tsuki is a Japanese literary work that explores memory, relationships, self-discovery. It presents its subject through a focused narrative or poetic frame shaped by the work's award context.
Charshu no Tsuki presents its award-winning themes in an accessible literary form.
Masamoto Nasu's Hiroshima trilogy follows memories and everyday life in Hiroshima from the atomic bombing through postwar recovery and later decades, seen through three generations of women. It turns history into family life, local language, and daily choices rather than distant knowledge.
A trilogy that views postwar Hiroshima through the lives of three generations of women and carries memory forward.
Yuka, a high school student raised in a potters’ village, finds her daily life unsettled by rumors about a transfer student from Tokyo. The novel traces the fixed rhythm of place and the changes of adolescence through signs as fragile as a paper airplane.
In an unchanging potters’ village, a girl’s heart begins to move.
Lonely Kanko meets Fusuke, who calls a flat stone in an empty lot “the table of the Yamato shijimi butterfly.” Through a warm relationship beyond blood ties, the story portrays childhood loneliness and mutual support.
The name of a small table gives a lonely child a place to belong.
園芸少年 is a work by 魚住直子. Children's literature that stays close to a young reader's view and presents moments of growth and discovery.
園芸少年 draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.
風の陰陽師 is a work by 三田村信行. Children's literature that stays close to a young reader's view and presents moments of growth and discovery.
風の陰陽師 draws readers into its world through concentrated language and the force of its subject.
やぶ坂に吹く風 is a work by 高橋秀雄. 『やぶ坂に吹く風』は高橋秀雄による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。
やぶ坂に吹く風 presents 高橋秀雄's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.
そのぬくもりはきえない is a work by 岩瀬成子 selected for the 日本児童文学者協会賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.
そのぬくもりはきえない
猫町五十四番地 is a work by 間中ケイ子 selected for the 日本児童文学者協会賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.
猫町五十四番地
ハーフ is a 児童文学 by 草野たき. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.
A focused 児童文学 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
A historical fantasy set in the late Heian period, following a boy gifted with the flute and a girl bound to dance. Art, spirits, faith, and war draw their love and destiny into a larger tale.
Flute and dance open a path through a darkening age and set two young lives in motion.
A critical study of representations of disabled people in children's literature. Through bodies, society, discrimination, and coexistence in fiction, it considers how books for children shape human understanding.
Reading the ethics and imagination of children's books through their portrayals of disability.
A linked collection about four sixth-grade classmates, Ayako, Marina, Shogo, and Ryohei, each experiencing an unforgettable first. It portrays the pain, expectation, and loneliness of growing up with a warm gaze.
Four children in the same classroom encounter first experiences they will never forget.
A long-running children's series by Masamoto Nasu. Centered on a trio from Hanayama No. 2 Elementary School, it crosses adventure, incidents, school life, and local community.
A long series that follows a trio's adventures and children's curiosity about everyday life and society.
Keita, a soccer-loving boy in suburban Sapporo, keeps meeting transfer students named Yuki at turning points in his elementary school life. Through his encounter with the fourth Yuki in sixth grade, the novel vividly portrays children’s hopes, anxieties, isolation, and growth.
Each Yuki appears and leaves, marking a new season in the boy’s heart.
This volume gathers Hiroshi Sunada’s criticism on children’s literature from the 1960s through the 1990s. Moving across society, war, media, and writer studies, it reconsiders literature for children amid historical change.
The book gathers the work of a critic who read children’s literature within society and history.
ひなこちゃんと歩く道 by 岡田なおこ is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
ひなこちゃんと歩く道 by 岡田なおこ is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
水底の棺 by 中川なをみ is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
水底の棺 by 中川なをみ is an award-winning work that conveys the author's voice through compressed language and a focused treatment of its themes.
空ゆく舟 by Chiyoko Okii is known as a 日本児童文学者協会賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
空ゆく舟 is an award-recognized work by Chiyoko Okii.
ぎりぎりトライアングル by Mitsuru Hanagata is known as a 日本児童文学者協会賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.
ぎりぎりトライアングル is an award-recognized work by Mitsuru Hanagata.
A children’s book set in a depopulated mountain village, centering on old Otra and the fox of Nukui Mountain. Around the brief happiness of an elderly woman who gains someone to talk to, it portrays the humor and resilience of people living carefully in a rural community.
A small encounter in a mountain village brings warmth to days of old age.
闇の守り人 is 刊行作品 by 上橋菜穂子. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.
The work offers a way into 上橋菜穂子's literary expression.
トゥインクル is 作品 by 長崎夏海. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.
The work offers a way into 長崎夏海's literary expression.
"バッテリーII" is a children's literary work by あさのあつこ. Reliable book identifiers for a standalone volume could not be confirmed.
"バッテリーII" is recognized as a children's literary work.
"ハテルマシキナ よみがえりの島 波照間" is a children's literary work by 桜井 信夫. Its publication as a book is confirmed, and it is treated as the award-winning work.
"ハテルマシキナ よみがえりの島 波照間" is recognized as a children's literary work.
A children's novel in which a family's daily life changes after an iguana arrives, humorously portraying life with a living creature.
A children's novel in which a family's daily life changes after an iguana arrives, humorously portraying life with a living creature.
A children's novel that portrays nature and moments of growth through a child's perspective.
A children's novel that portrays nature and moments of growth through a child's perspective.
お江戸の百太郎 乙松、宙に舞う is a literary work recognized by an award. Through character choices, the atmosphere of time and place, and shifts in feeling, it conveys the author's central concerns.
A work in which the author's themes emerge through characters and the atmosphere of their time.
青春航路ふぇにっくす丸 by 八束澄子 is a work recognized by japan-children-literature-association-award. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.
An introduction to 青春航路ふぇにっくす丸 by 八束澄子 in its award context.
亀八 is a work of children’s literature by 舟崎靖子. It was honored by the 日本児童文学者協会賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.
A useful entry point into 舟崎靖子's work.
子どもの本のまなざし is a work of children’s literature by 清水真砂子. It was honored by the 日本児童文学者協会賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.
A useful entry point into 清水真砂子's work.
Kamome no Ie is a work of children’s literature written by Haruo Yamashita with illustrations by Akira Uno. It layers the atmosphere of the seaside with a child’s shifting emotions, reflecting thoughts of home, family, and belonging.
Around a house by the sea, a child’s feelings begin to move quietly.
The illustrations for Kamome no Ie visually support the seaside atmosphere and the child’s inner life. Akira Uno’s line and use of space add fantasy and delicate shading to Haruo Yamashita’s prose.
Image and language resonate together, giving the seaside story a distinctive afterglow.
The Sleepless Child is a children's novel about Taku, a fifth-grade boy who wanders through town at night because he cannot sleep. Through his longing for a mysterious glowing house, it portrays urban childhood loneliness, emotional thirst, and the border between reality and fantasy.
A glowing house found on a sleepless night quietly unsettles a boy's lonely heart.
桂子は風のなかで is a children's literary work by 宮川ひろ. It follows a child-centered perspective and presents growth, family, friendship, and changes in everyday life as a story.
桂子は風のなかで is an important work for reading 宮川ひろ's expression in the context of 日本児童文学者協会賞.
A long children's-literature series set in Shintotsukawa, Hokkaido, depicting migration and settlement as the history of family and community. Hardship and hope across generations are built into a story accessible to young readers.
The time of people living on settled land is passed down across generations.
A children's work set in Kyoto, layering children's daily lives with the presence of history. The light motion of a pinwheel reflects the memory of the city and the time of growth.
A pinwheel turning in Kyoto's wind carries the children's time.
海のメダカ is a work by 皿海達哉 selected in the 1988 cycle of 日本児童文学者協会賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
海のメダカ by 皿海達哉, recognized by 日本児童文学者協会賞.
海のメダカ is a work by 長新太 selected in the 1988 cycle of 日本児童文学者協会賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.
海のメダカ by 長新太, recognized by 日本児童文学者協会賞.
学校ウサギをつかまえろ is a 児童文学 by 岡田淳. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.
学校ウサギをつかまえろ condenses the qualities of 岡田淳's work in the form of a 児童文学.
街かどの夏休み is a 児童文学 by 木暮正夫. It presents its subject through a clear artistic perspective, giving shape to personal experience, historical context, and the texture of expression in a way suitable for readers encountering the work today.
街かどの夏休み condenses the qualities of 木暮正夫's work in the form of a 児童文学.
Once, There Was a Forest is a long children's novel written by Eihiko Iida and illustrated by Daihachi Ota. Students and teachers turn into animals after passing through a tunnel of trees on the way to school, and the mystery is linked to an ancient adventure and tragedy.
Beyond a tunnel of trees, school life becomes connected to memories from ancient times.
Once, There Was a Forest is a long children's novel written by Eihiko Iida and illustrated by Daihachi Ota. Students and teachers turn into animals after passing through a tunnel of trees on the way to school, and the mystery is linked to an ancient adventure and tragedy.
Beyond a tunnel of trees, school life becomes connected to memories from ancient times.
Grassland: The Land of Me and the Calf is a children's novel by Taichi Kato with illustrations by Shinta Cho. Set on the broad grasslands of Hokkaido, it follows a boy and a calf while portraying the harshness of nature, the feel of life, and the process of growing up.
On the Hokkaido grasslands, a boy learns the weight of life through his bond with a calf.
Grassland: The Land of Me and the Calf is a children's novel by Taichi Kato with illustrations by Shinta Cho. Set on the broad grasslands of Hokkaido, it follows a boy and a calf while portraying the harshness of nature, the feel of life, and the process of growing up.
On the Hokkaido grasslands, a boy learns the weight of life through his bond with a calf.
体験的児童文学史 is a critical and research-oriented work by 関英雄. It reads literary and cultural history through concrete works and figures, making the subject accessible beyond a specialist readership.
体験的児童文学史 conveys the qualities recognized at the time of the award through its period context, expression, and reach to readers.
子ども闘牛士 is a poetry work by 竹中郁. Its compressed language brings together memory, landscape, and bodily sensation, leaving a quiet resonance after the page is closed.
子ども闘牛士 conveys the qualities recognized at the time of the award through its period context, expression, and reach to readers.
A children’s novel about children in the years shortly after the war. Through school life and family atmosphere, it observes classmates’ relationships, growth, and the shadow of the times.
Postwar time emerges through the children gathered in one classroom.
"ひげよ、さらば" is recorded as an award-winning work for japan-children-literature-association-award. This entry is prepared from the award record, while book identifiers are left blank because no independently confirmed public bibliographic record has been verified here.
ひげよ、さらば. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.
"少年たち" is recorded as an award-winning work for japan-children-literature-association-award. This entry is prepared from the award record, while book identifiers are left blank because no independently confirmed public bibliographic record has been verified here.
少年たち. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.
"落穂ひろい" is recorded as an award-winning work for japan-children-literature-association-award. This entry is prepared from the award record, while book identifiers are left blank because no independently confirmed public bibliographic record has been verified here.
落穂ひろい. Recorded in the award data, this work serves as a starting point for bibliographic verification.
七つばなし百万石 by 勝尾金弥 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.
七つばなし百万石 is one of the works associated with 勝尾金弥's award record.
昼と夜のあいだ by 川村たかし is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.
昼と夜のあいだ is one of the works associated with 川村たかし's award record.
My Anne Frank is a children's novel in which thirteen-year-old Yuko begins writing a diary addressed to Anne Frank after receiving The Diary of Anne Frank. Yuko's daily life intersects with her mother's thoughts on war and Auschwitz, bringing questions of freedom and human dignity into focus through the voices of a family.
A diary addressed to Anne links a girl's everyday life with her mother's memories, asking what war does to human dignity.
Thirteen-year-old Yuko begins keeping a diary addressed to Anne Frank, while her mother Fukiko writes of her journey to Auschwitz and the memories it awakens. By crossing a girl's everyday life with her mother's encounter with history, the story asks young readers to think about war, discrimination, freedom, and human dignity.
Diaries addressed to Anne lead a girl and her mother toward the pain of history.
いないいないばあや is an award-recognized work by 神沢利子. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
いないいないばあや conveys 神沢利子's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
天の赤馬 is an award-recognized work by 斎藤隆介. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
天の赤馬 conveys 斎藤隆介's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
天の赤馬 is an award-recognized work by 滝平二郎. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
天の赤馬 conveys 滝平二郎's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
トンネル山の子どもたち is an award-recognized work by 長崎源之助. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
トンネル山の子どもたち conveys 長崎源之助's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
トンネル山の子どもたち is an award-recognized work by 梶山俊夫. It can be read through its subject, form, and the literary concerns that surrounded the award year.
トンネル山の子どもたち conveys 梶山俊夫's voice and the literary atmosphere in which the work was recognized.
Set in northeastern Japan at the end of the Edo period, this historical children's novel follows Mankichi, a boy who returns home and confronts the lives and resistance of farmers and fishers burdened by harsh taxes. It powerfully depicts a community moving toward revolt through a child's eyes.
Poverty and anger seen through a boy's eyes widen into a story of popular resistance.
Set around a stone quarry near Kumamoto, this novel portrays adults and children living under the shadow of the Pacific War. Local life, labor, and wartime pressure overlap, bringing out both a child's growth and a community's memory.
Through life around a stone quarry, the novel depicts children looking out at wartime society.
This study traces the history of children's theatre, school drama, and puppet theatre in Japan from the Meiji period onward. It surveys the relationship between children and theatre from both performance history and educational history.
A scholarly work that follows the modern history of children and theatre with chronologies and sources.
A chronology of children's literature compiled by Shin Torigoe. It traces modern Japanese children's literature over time and supported both creative and scholarly understanding of the field.
A chronological work that broadened the foundation for studying and writing children's literature.
A poetry collection by Michio Mado centered on plants. In concise language accessible to children, it looks closely at familiar grasses, trees, and flowers, conveying wonder and affection for living things.
Quiet wonder rises from the forms of small plants.
Ikiru Koto no Imi connects children's literature with educational questions, asking how the meaning of living can be conveyed to children. In the award context, it matters as a work that treats children's literature as both thought and practice.
A work that looks at the question of life at the root of literature for children.
The second volume of Yokotani Teru Jido Bungaku Ronshu, including Gendai Jido Bungaku e no Toikake, gathers Teru Yokotani's criticism of children's literature. It asks how modern children's literature should face children's realities and shows the meeting point of creation and criticism.
A critical reconsideration of the responsibilities and possibilities of modern children's literature.
ぼんぼん is a children's literature work by 今江祥智. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本児童文学者協会賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
ぼんぼん offers an entry point into 今江祥智's literary expression through the context of the 日本児童文学者協会賞.
花咲か is a children's literature work by 岩崎京子. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本児童文学者協会賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
花咲か offers an entry point into 岩崎京子's literary expression through the context of the 日本児童文学者協会賞.
赤い帆の舟 is a children's literature work by 久保喬. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本児童文学者協会賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
赤い帆の舟 offers an entry point into 久保喬's literary expression through the context of the 日本児童文学者協会賞.
でんでんむしの競馬 is a children's literature work by 安藤美紀夫. It is recognized as a winning work of the 日本児童文学者協会賞, reflecting the author's style and the literary concerns of its period.
でんでんむしの競馬 offers an entry point into 安藤美紀夫's literary expression through the context of the 日本児童文学者協会賞.
A children's novel about emotional growth and a journey. Through travel, family, friendship, anxiety, and discovery are brought together as a young heart opens toward the wider world.
With each step of the journey, a child's heart encounters landscapes it had not known.
A broad critical history of Japanese children's songs. Linking writers, poets, magazines, and historical background, it traces how children's songs changed alongside modern Japan's view of childhood.
The history of children's songs emerges as a history of language addressed to children.
さらばハイウェイ is a work by 砂田弘; a book edition was published by 偕成社 in 1975.
さらばハイウェイ stands in 砂田弘's award record.
魔神の海 is a work by 前川康男 recognized by the japan-children-literature-association-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.
魔神の海, a work recognized by the japan-children-literature-association-award.
A children's story centered on a large cherry tree in a village, depicting nature and community through children's eyes. Memory rooted in familiar places and a child's power of perception support the narrative.
A single cherry tree connects the children with the village's time.
A children's work that connects everyday anxieties and hopes with a cosmic breadth. Beneath the softness of the title lies the sensitivity of children living in their time.
The sound of a lullaby expands a child's time toward the stars.
ヒョコタンの山羊 is a 児童文学 by 長崎源之助. It is presented here as a work shaped by 児童文学, 動物, 生活.
ヒョコタンの山羊 preserves 長崎源之助's voice in the form of 児童文学.
宿題ひきうけ株式会社 is an award-winning work by 古田足日, portraying personal choices and the weight of memory against the atmosphere of its time.
宿題ひきうけ株式会社 reads the shadows of an era through individual experience.
シラカバと少女 is an award-winning work by 那須田稔, portraying personal choices and the weight of memory against the atmosphere of its time.
シラカバと少女 reads the shadows of an era through individual experience.
肥後の石工 is an award-winning work by 今西祐行, portraying personal choices and the weight of memory against the atmosphere of its time.
肥後の石工 reads the shadows of an era through individual experience.
Set in Tokyo just after the war, this story follows Aunt Maa, who loves cats, along with children, cats, and ducks sharing everyday life. Beyond the delight of animal stories, it warmly portrays the joys, mishaps, and kindness of humans and animals living together.
Beyond the commotion of the cats, the story reveals the human kindness that sustains everyday life.
A nonfiction book for young readers that introduces Japanese archaeology. Through sites such as Toro and Togariishi, it follows the work, convictions, and passion of people who excavated the past, conveying the excitement of learning history through remains.
Through objects emerging from the soil, readers approach ancient life in Japan and the passion of researchers.
A critical guide in which Teruo Jingu surveys the history of world children's literature. It traces the field from its beginnings through its international development and includes a useful list of works.
A guide to children's books around the world, read through the flow of literary history and key works.
A full-length fantasy about Momiichi, a demobilized soldier led by the memory and sound of the horse he lost in war. Carrying trauma and loss, he gradually rediscovers light and music through encounters on a ranch and in the mountains.
In deep darkness, the sound of a lost horse's hooves begins to light the heart again.
Ariko no Ki is a children's novel about an adolescent girl living near the mouth of the Edogawa River on the eastern edge of Tokyo. It follows the girl's feelings and daily life while touching on the realities of family and community.
In life near the mouth of the Edogawa River, a girl's inner world gradually finds its own shape.
A children's novel set in Kawaguchi, a foundry town, following junior-high student Jun and her family. Through poverty, labor, family conflict, and her relationship with a Korean resident friend, it views postwar society through a child's eyes.
In a town lit by cupola furnaces, Jun searches for her future amid poverty.
Yama ga Naiteru is a jointly written children's novel by Minoru Suzuki, Tokuyoshi Takahashi, Toshio Sasahara, Sennichiro Maki, and Yosaku Uematsu. It portrays children's lives and local realities around a mountain, and is significant as a postwar children's literary work engaging with region and society.
A postwar children's novel, collaboratively written, about children living with the realities of a mountain community.
Yama ga Naiteru is a jointly written children's novel by Minoru Suzuki, Tokuyoshi Takahashi, Toshio Sasahara, Sennichiro Maki, and Yosaku Uematsu. It portrays children's lives and local realities around a mountain, and is significant as a postwar children's literary work engaging with region and society.
A postwar children's novel, collaboratively written, about children living with the realities of a mountain community.
Yama ga Naiteru is a jointly written children's novel by Minoru Suzuki, Tokuyoshi Takahashi, Toshio Sasahara, Sennichiro Maki, and Yosaku Uematsu. It portrays children's lives and local realities around a mountain, and is significant as a postwar children's literary work engaging with region and society.
A postwar children's novel, collaboratively written, about children living with the realities of a mountain community.
Yama ga Naiteru is a jointly written children's novel by Minoru Suzuki, Tokuyoshi Takahashi, Toshio Sasahara, Sennichiro Maki, and Yosaku Uematsu. It portrays children's lives and local realities around a mountain, and is significant as a postwar children's literary work engaging with region and society.
A postwar children's novel, collaboratively written, about children living with the realities of a mountain community.
Yama ga Naiteru is a jointly written children's novel by Minoru Suzuki, Tokuyoshi Takahashi, Toshio Sasahara, Sennichiro Maki, and Yosaku Uematsu. It portrays children's lives and local realities around a mountain, and is significant as a postwar children's literary work engaging with region and society.
A postwar children's novel, collaboratively written, about children living with the realities of a mountain community.