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Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Award にほんファンタジーノベルたいしょう

Edition 33 (2025)

Fantasy novel

Winners

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明里桜良 あかり さくら grand prize

Hirari, a newly employed local civil servant, moves into her mother's childhood home and discovers that her family lineage carries a special role as descendants of the "Nakayashiki," charged with making wishes to tengu. Through encounters with a talking badger named Yosaburo and the tengu Iino, she gradually awakens to her destiny. When a powerful typhoon strikes the town of Toyoho, her true trial begins. A fresh-feeling fantasy set in a rural town where daily life and the supernatural intertwine, depicting the fading of tradition alongside the struggles of a modern civil servant.

The combination of a civil servant and an earth spirit is fascinating — Riku Onda

320 pages
tenguearth spiritscivil servantfolk beliefrural Japantraditionfantasyeveryday and supernatural