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Jodai Bungakukai Award

じょうだいぶんがくかいしょう

An academic award established by the Jodai Bungakukai.

PapersBooks
Established
1983
Organizer
Jodai Bungakukai
Category
Research, Translation, and Scholarship
Selection Method
Recommendation
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Announcement Period
around May
Status
Active

Description

Primarily targeting papers and books from the previous year by members, this academic award determines and announces winners once a year on the pages of the Jodai Bungaku journal. Established in 1983.

Selection

Selection Process

Selection
Judges Jodai Bungakukai Selection Committee
Announcement Announced in the Jodai Bungaku journal

Related Awards

  • Japanese Classical Literature Academic Award

Official Resources

https://jodaibungakukai.org/10_prize.html

Past Winners

根来麻子 ねごろ あさこ award
No winner
葛西太一 かさい たいち award
380 pages
澤崎文 さわざき ふみ award

"古代日本語における万葉仮名表記の研究" is a 受賞 work from the Jodai Bungakukai Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Jodai Bungakukai Award 2021-1.

Jodai Bungakukai Awardaward-winning work
No winner
No winner
裴寛紋 はい かんもん award

A scholarly study of how Motoori Norinaga's Kojikiden constructed the ideas of foreign lands and the imperial country, and how its classical interpretation shaped later images of Japan. It reconsiders Norinaga studies within intellectual history through myth, cosmology, and identity.

It uncovers the narrative of the imperial country embedded in Kojikiden as a question of intellectual history.

268 pages
kokugakuMotoori NorinagaKojikidenintellectual historyimperial country
No winner
池原陽斉 いけはら ようさい award

平安時代中期における『萬葉集』伝来の一様相 is a 評論・研究 work by 池原陽斉 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.

平安時代中期における『萬葉集』伝来の一様相 by 池原陽斉 is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

award-winning workbibliographic verification評論・研究
No winner
No winner
No winner
No winner
伊藤剣 いとう つるぎ award

Ken Ito's study of ancient Japanese literature examines mythic traditions in the Nihon Shoki, Kojiki, and fudoki from the perspectives of variant formation and the development of transmission.

A study that reads ancient myths not as fixed stories but as traditions continually being formed.

384 pages
ancient Japanese literaturemythic traditionNihon ShokiKojikifudoki
No winner
兼岡理恵 かねおか りえ award

風土記受容史研究 is a work by 兼岡理恵. 『風土記受容史研究』は兼岡理恵による作品。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。

風土記受容史研究 presents 兼岡理恵's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

文学賞受賞作
Ogawa Yasuhiko おがわ やすひこ award

萬葉学史の研究 is a work by 小川靖彦 selected for the 上代文学会賞. It was published as a book, so both its award status and its book publication can be identified.

萬葉学史の研究

634 pages
松木俊曉 まつき としあきら award

言説空間としての大和政権 is a 上代文学研究 by 松木俊曉. 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 上代文学研究 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

family and memoryself-discoverysocial pressure
Hiroshi Kudo くどう ひろし award

A study of ancient literature and Shinto texts centered on Shinsen Kiso-ki, an early turtle-shell divination text grounded in the Kojiki. It closely examines turtle divination, the Urabe lineage, and ancient ritual texts.

A scholarly work reading the foundations of ancient ritual and language through the divination text Shinsen Kiso-ki.

330 pages
ancient Japanese literatureKojikiturtle-shell divinationShinto texts
村田右富実 むらた うふみ award

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro to Wakashi is a study of early Japanese literature by Ufumi Murata. It examines Hitomaro's works and reception within the development of waka history.

The study repositions Kakinomoto no Hitomaro in the flow of waka history and reconsiders the meaning of his works and reception.

411 pages
Kakinomoto no Hitomarowaka historyearly Japanese literatureMan'yoshu
Yoshihiko Inui いぬい よしひこ award

A scholarly study of how Chinese characters were historically incorporated into the writing of Japanese. It examines how choices in notation shaped linguistic structure and cultural reception.

漢字による日本語書記の史的研究 is a work in which 犬飼隆 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

history of Japanesekanjiwriting systems
蔵中しのぶ ぞうちゅう しのぶ award

A comparative literary study of Nara-period Chinese-style poetry and prose. It considers East Asian literary exchange and the formation of ancient Japanese literature through both textual expression and institutional context.

奈良朝漢詩文の比較文学的研究 is a work in which 蔵中しのぶ draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

Nara periodSino-Japanese literaturecomparative literature
No winner
Yoshikazu Shinada しなだ えついち award

万葉集の発明 by Yoshikazu Shinada is known as a 上代文学会賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

万葉集の発明 is an award-recognized work by Yoshikazu Shinada.

356 pages
award-winning workcontemporary literaturerelationships
No winner
金沢英之 かなざわ ひでゆき award

三大考論争 is 作品 by 金沢英之. It is presented here as the award-recognized work.

The work offers a way into 金沢英之's literary expression.

award-recognized literature
No winner
Makoto Ueno うえの まこと award

A study of ancient Japanese literature through ritual, song, narration, and communal settings, examining the spaces in which literary expression emerged and worked.

A study of ancient Japanese literature through ritual, song, narration, and communal settings, examining the spaces in which literary expression emerged and worked.

ancient literatureritualsongcommunity
梶川信行 かじかわ のぶゆき award

A study centered on Man'yoshu poet Yamabe no Akahito, examining the historical position and expression of ancient waka.

A study centered on Man'yoshu poet Yamabe no Akahito, examining the historical position and expression of ancient waka.

Man'yoshuYamabe no Akahitoancient wakaliterary study
奥村和美 おくむら かずみ award

天平勝宝八歳六月十七日大伴家持作歌六首の論 is a work by 奥村和美 associated with the 上代文学会賞. It was recognized in a literary award context and is presented as a work centered on the concerns suggested by its title.

Recognized by the 上代文学会賞, 天平勝宝八歳六月十七日大伴家持作歌六首の論 draws readers in through the impression created by its title.

上代文学会賞天平勝宝八歳六月十七日大伴家持作歌六首の論literature
No winner
Tsutomu Saijo さいじょう つとむ award

〈皇祖神=天照大神〉の誕生と伊勢神宮 is a prize-recognized work that draws readers through its central subject, characters, and the texture of its period or setting.

〈皇祖神=天照大神〉の誕生と伊勢神宮 carries the distinctive qualities that made it a prize-recognized work.

award-winning literaturehuman experiencesociety and time
胡志昂 award

奈良万葉と中国文学 by 胡志昂 is a work recognized by jodai-bungakukai-award. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.

An introduction to 奈良万葉と中国文学 by 胡志昂 in its award context.

award-winning workliterary prize奈良万葉と中国文学
Moriyuki Hiyoshi special award

万葉集歌句漢字総索引・万葉集表記別類句索引 is a critical or research work by 日吉盛幸. It was honored by the 上代文学会賞 and presents the writer's concerns and style in a focused form.

A useful entry point into 日吉盛幸's work.

a critical or research workaward-winning work
孫久富 award

Manyoshu to Chugoku Koten no Hikaku Kenkyu is a scholarly monograph on classical literature. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

Manyoshu to Chugoku Koten no Hikaku Kenkyu is a scholarly monograph on classical literature. The work is introduced here through its subject, genre, and publication context.

398 pages
比較文学万葉集中国古典
No winner
Shuhei Aoki award

倭建命東征伝承と「言挙」 is a literary work by 青木周平. It presents character, atmosphere, and social context through fiction or criticism.

倭建命東征伝承と「言挙」 is an important work for reading 青木周平's expression in the context of 上代文学会賞.

literaturecharacterperiod atmosphere
福島秋穂 award

Kiki Shinwa Densetsu no Kenkyu is a scholarly study of myths and legends recorded in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. Drawing on comparative mythology and cultural anthropology, it examines tales such as Izanaki and Izanami, Hiruko, Yomotsu-hegui, and Yamata no Orochi to approach ancient Japanese thought and everyday imagination.

A study that rereads the myths of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki within the broader field of East Asian and world mythic traditions.

517 pages
Kojiki and Nihon Shoki mythscomparative mythologyancient thoughtlegend studies

村落伝承論 is a work by 三浦佑之 selected in the 1988 cycle of 上代文学会賞. As a prize-recognized work, it presents the author's concerns and distinctive mode of expression.

村落伝承論 by 三浦佑之, recognized by 上代文学会賞.

340 pages
prize-recognized workcontemporary literatureauthorial expression
Kazuomi Tada award

隠り妻と人妻と is a fiction by 多田一臣. It can be read through the themes and narrative texture recognized at the time of the award, where people, places, and events come together.

隠り妻と人妻と links the scene suggested by its title with the author's concerns, retaining the shape of an award-winning work.

characterstimememoryrelationships

Kagami no Oboegaki is a study of ancient Japanese literature by Kimiyuki Inukai. Using mirrors as objects and symbols, it reads the relation between ancient literary language, belief, and ritual.

Through the symbol of the mirror, the work considers language and belief in ancient literature.

ancient Japanese literaturemirrorsancient beliefsymbolismscholarly essay

The Position of Okura's Poems Seen from Six Dynasties Buddhism is a study by Shigemi Azuma. It reconsiders Yamanoue no Okura's poetry in relation to Six Dynasties Buddhist thought and expression, exploring the intellectual background of ancient Japanese verse.

Okura's poems are reread through the sphere of Six Dynasties Buddhism.

ancient Japanese literatureYamanoue no OkuraSix Dynasties BuddhismMan'yoshuintellectual history

人麻呂の挽歌 is a 古代文学研究 recognized in 1985. The work is introduced here through bibliographic confirmation and a concise account of its subject and literary character.

A work whose shape can be traced through award records and bibliographic sources.

award-winning work古代文学研究1985

A scholarly study that reads the Kojiki not only as myth or historical material but as a constructed text. Through the logic of kingship, myth, and song narrative, it argues for its achievement as a work.

It rereads the Kojiki through the logic of an achieved literary work.

310 pages
Kojikiancient literaturemythkingshiptextual study

An article rereading the expression of ancient songs from the viewpoint of production narrative. It examines how ancient uta connect with narrative and communal logic.

It interprets ancient songs through the workings of expression.

ancient songstheory of expressionproduction narrativeancient literaturearticle