"追跡・白いダイヤ" is a 受賞 work from the Kikuchi Kan Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Kikuchi Kan Award 2021-1.

An investigative reporting project by the Akita Sakigake Shimbun about the Aegis Ashore issue.

Recorded as a reporting project; it does not match a standalone book title.

NHK ETV's preschool program Okaasan to Issho has long supported family life through songs, exercises, puppet segments, and everyday learning. The Kikuchi Kan Prize recognized its sustained contribution to children and caregivers and its role in shaping children's culture across generations.

A public-broadcasting children's program that has stayed close to family mornings and childhood memories.

Testimonies: The Navy Reflection Meeting is an edited collection by Kazushige Todaka based on private postwar discussions among former Imperial Japanese Navy officers. It traces the causes of defeat, organizational culture, personnel policy, and education through participants' own words, making it a valuable primary-source record for modern Japanese and military history.

A testimony-based record that reads the navy's long-hidden postwar self-examination through the voices of those involved.

東海テレビが継続してきた劇場公開ドキュメンタリーの取り組み。テレビ局制作のドキュメンタリーを映画館へ届け、地域や社会の問題を長期的に可視化してきた活動として菊池寛賞を受けた。 The award recognizes a project or series rather than a single awarded book, so no single book identifier can be assigned to the awarded work itself.

A long-running cultural undertaking was recognized beyond the scope of a single work.

明治書院が長年刊行してきた中国古典の注釈叢書。全120巻と別巻に及ぶ大系として、原文、訓読、現代語訳、語注を整備し、漢文学習と研究の基盤を築いた出版事業として評価された。 The award recognizes a project or series rather than a single awarded book, so no single book identifier can be assigned to the awarded work itself.

A long-running cultural undertaking was recognized beyond the scope of a single work.

In This Corner of the World is an animated feature directed by Sunao Katabuchi and based on Fumiyo Kouno's manga. It follows Suzu's daily life after she marries into a family in wartime Kure, Hiroshima, portraying the texture of ordinary living and the pain of loss while focusing on one person's life within a larger historical current.

This animated film observes Suzu's continued daily life in a wartime corner of the world through finely detailed domestic scenes.

五色のメビウス is a work by 信濃毎日新聞社 「五色のメビウス」取材班 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work 五色のメビウス.

映像の世紀 バタフライエフェクト is a work by NHK 「映像の世紀 バタフライエフェクト」 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work 映像の世紀 バタフライエフェクト.

The Kikuchi Kan Prize recognized Okaasan to Issho as NHK’s long-running children’s television program, not as a specific book. Its sustained contribution to young children’s culture through songs, exercise segments, puppet theater, and concerts was the object of recognition.

Verified prize-work information is organized for bibliographic use.

A substantial documentary record edited by Todaka Kazushige from testimony by former Imperial Japanese Navy personnel. It traces wartime leadership and organizational decision-making through participants’ own statements, giving the series strong historical value.

Verified prize-work information is organized for bibliographic use.

This project presents documentary films produced by Tokai Television in theaters. Through long-term reporting on regional incidents, families, trials, welfare, and memories of war, the series brought television documentary work to cinema audiences.

A project that brings television-born documentaries into cinemas and opens up overlooked corners of society.

This long-running annotated series from Meiji Shoin presents classical Chinese texts with original passages, Japanese readings, notes, and modern translations. Covering works from the Four Books and Five Classics to the Records of the Grand Historian and Bai Juyi, it became a foundation for reading Chinese classics in Japan.

A large-scale annotated translation series for reading Chinese classics, compiled over more than half a century.

The award honored the team behind Sunao Katabuchi's animated feature adaptation of Fumiyo Kono's manga. The film portrays Suzu's daily life in wartime Kure, Hiroshima, layering the textures of ordinary living with the shadow of war.

An animated film that depicts wartime life through domestic detail and the pain of loss.

A series of investigative reports by Tulip Television's news production team on political activity expenses in Toyama City Council. The reporting made opaque local-government spending visible and helped bring wider scrutiny to the resignations that followed.

Persistent local reporting turned municipal accounting abuse into a national issue.

選挙特番 is a nonfiction work that follows concrete people and events to illuminate memory, society, and institutions, opening a wider view of the era through individual experience.

選挙特番 is a prize-recognized work by 池上彰とテレビ東京選挙特番チーム.

カラーでよみがえる東京／カラーでみる太平洋戦争 is a work by NHKスペシャル「カラーでよみがえる東京」「カラーでみる太平洋戦争」. 『カラーでよみがえる東京／カラーでみる太平洋戦争』はNHKスペシャル「カラーでよみがえる東京」「カラーでみる太平洋戦争」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。

カラーでよみがえる東京／カラーでみる太平洋戦争 presents NHKスペシャル「カラーでよみがえる東京」「カラーでみる太平洋戦争」's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

'シリーズ「認知症行方不明者一万人　～知られざる徘徊の実態～」' is a winning work of the 菊池寛賞 by NHKスペシャル・シリーズ「認知症行方不明者一万人　～知られざる徘徊の実態～」.

'シリーズ「認知症行方不明者一万人　～知られざる徘徊の実態～」' is a winning work of the 菊池寛賞 by NHKスペシャル・シリーズ「認知症行方不明者一万人　～知られざる徘徊の実態～」.

シリーズ「深海の巨大生物」 is a テレビ・ドキュメンタリー by NHKスペシャル. 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 テレビ・ドキュメンタリー that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

サザンオールスターズ is an award-recognized work by サザンオールスターズ. It is known through the prize record and appears to portray a turning point in character or circumstance within a compact literary form.

Although no standalone publication could be confirmed, the prize record preserves its place in regional and open-call literary culture.

もう、きみには頼まない is a work by 城山三郎.

もう、きみには頼まない, a work by 城山三郎.

台湾萬葉集 is a work by 孤蓬万里.

台湾萬葉集, a work by 孤蓬万里.

大地の子 is a work by NHKテレビドラマ「大地の子」製作スタッフ.

大地の子, a work by NHKテレビドラマ「大地の子」製作スタッフ.

中学生日記 is a prize-recognized work that draws readers through its central subject, characters, and the texture of its period or setting.

中学生日記 carries the distinctive qualities that made it a prize-recognized work.

ひねくれ一茶 by 田辺聖子 is a work recognized by kikuchi-kan-award. No standalone book identifiers were confirmed, so the entry focuses on the work itself.

An introduction to ひねくれ一茶 by 田辺聖子 in its award context.

Two major dictionaries representing Shizuka Shirakawa’s study of writing. Jito examines the formation of Chinese characters, while Jikun treats the relationship between ancient Japanese words and their written characters, opening the study of ancient scripts to wider readers.

Through the forms of characters and the memory of words, these works read the ancient world anew.

Toyoko Yamasaki’s epic novel follows Lu Yixin, a Japanese war orphan left in China, while tracing postwar Sino-Japanese relations. Against the Cultural Revolution, labor reform, and steelworks construction, it pursues human dignity caught between nation and family.

The life of a child torn apart by war overlaps with the postwar history of Japan and China.

A reportage by Shinano Mainichi Shimbun on the lives and human rights of foreign workers. From local communities, it conveys workers’ voices, institutional barriers, and the challenges of coexistence in journalistic prose.

From local settings, it asks what life and rights mean for foreign workers.

日露戦争 is a literary work by 児島襄. It presents character, atmosphere, and social context through fiction or criticism.

日露戦争 is an important work for reading 児島襄's expression in the context of 菊池寛賞.

ロシヤ戦争前夜の秋山真之 is a literary work by 島田謹二. It presents character, atmosphere, and social context through fiction or criticism.

ロシヤ戦争前夜の秋山真之 is an important work for reading 島田謹二's expression in the context of 菊池寛賞.

is a recognized work by from the 1989 award cycle. It presents the author's concerns through people, memory, and the texture of its time, and can be read as a representative work in the author's career.

conveys the emotional and social texture of its subject through 's perspective.

is a recognized work by from the 1989 award cycle. It presents the author's concerns through people, memory, and the texture of its time, and can be read as a representative work in the author's career.

conveys the emotional and social texture of its subject through 's perspective.

醒めた炎…木戸孝允 is a nonfiction by 村松剛. It can be read through the themes and narrative texture recognized at the time of the award, where people, places, and events come together.

醒めた炎…木戸孝允 links the scene suggested by its title with the author's concerns, retaining the shape of an award-winning work.

ルイス・フロイス日本史 by 松田毅一 is an award-winning work whose publication context and genre are identified from the award entry.

ルイス・フロイス日本史 is one of the works associated with 松田毅一's award record.

ルイス・フロイス日本史 is a prize-recognized work. It approaches its central subject through the conditions of its time, social context, and individual experience.

ルイス・フロイス日本史 distills the author's concerns while retaining the shape of an award-recognized work.

A nonfiction and journalistic project based on a long-running Mainichi Shimbun series that questioned religion in contemporary society. It examined faith, popular religion, and social structures that are difficult to see from the surface of politics and institutions.

A newspaper project that probed faith and popular concerns beneath the surface of modern society.

A TBS political discussion program. Through conversations with political figures and experienced observers, it discussed current affairs and became a long-running forum for political speech on television.

A program that conveyed current affairs through dialogue among speakers familiar with political life.

A trilogy of photo books by Taikichi Irie. Through Koshoku Yamatoji, Manyo Yamatoji, and Hana Yamato, it fixed the temples, nature, and colors of Nara as photographic art.

The temples and nature of ancient Nara emerge as richly colored photographic art.

Rikugun Tokubetsu Kogekitai is documentary literature built from testimony and materials concerning army special attack units. It follows organization, command, and the deaths of young men, treating war memory not only as personal tragedy but as an institutional problem.

Documentary literature that reexamines special attacks through both testimony and structure.

A chronological history of shingeki, modern Japanese theatre. By bringing together productions, companies, directors, and historical circumstances, it shows how modern Japanese theatre built its institutions and forms of expression.

This theatrical chronicle is also a record of how modern Japan spoke of itself through the stage.

宇野浩二伝 is a work by 水上勉; a book edition was published by 中央公論社 in 1976.

宇野浩二伝 stands in 水上勉's award record.

題名のない音楽会 is a Television program by 黛敏郎; a book edition was published by 角川書店 in 1977.

題名のない音楽会 stands in 黛敏郎's award record.

昭和史発掘 is a work by 松本清張 recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

昭和史発掘, a work recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award.

漱石とその時代 is a work by 江藤淳 recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

漱石とその時代, a work recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award.

あすの日本海 is a work by 新潟日報 recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

あすの日本海, a work recognized by the kikuchi-kan-award.

San Shimai is a story by Jiro Osaragi set in the late Edo period. Through the lives of three sisters, it portrays the fate of a family and of women caught in a moment of major historical change.

Against the upheaval of the late Edo period, the lives of three sisters intersect with the waves of history.

教育の森 is a 新聞連載 by 毎日新聞. It is presented here as a work shaped by 教育, 新聞企画, 社会.

教育の森 preserves 毎日新聞's voice in the form of 新聞連載.

昭和史の天皇 is a 新聞連載 by 読売新聞. It is presented here as a work shaped by 昭和史, 新聞連載, 天皇制.

昭和史の天皇 preserves 読売新聞's voice in the form of 新聞連載.

ふるさとの歌まつり by 宮田輝 is an awarded work, performance, or creative activity that marks an achievement in the artist’s field.

ふるさとの歌まつり is an award-recognized work that concentrates the author’s expressive strengths.

A pairing of major Ryotaro Shiba historical novels: the youth of Sakamoto Ryoma amid the late Edo upheaval and the power struggles of the Sengoku period.

竜馬がゆく・国盗り物語 is an award-recognized work that concentrates the author’s expressive strengths.

"Campaign to Expel Organized Crime" is recorded as a Kikuchi Kan Prize-winning journalistic and civic campaign by the Chugoku Shimbun. It is treated as sustained newspaper work rather than a literary book.

A prize-winning effort that confronted organized crime in local society through reporting and civic campaigning.

"Gendaishi Shiryo" is a modern-history source collection series published by Misuzu Shobo. Across many volumes, it gathers primary materials on events, wars, and social movements, and has been valued as a foundation for research.

A source series that assembles primary materials of modern history volume by volume.

"Reporting on the Canadian Eskimos" is recorded as an Asahi Shimbun reporting achievement concerning northern Indigenous communities. It is treated as journalistic work rather than a book.

An Asahi Shimbun achievement that reported on northern life and society through journalism.

"Jinbutsu Sosho" is a biographical series edited by the Historical Society of Japan and published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan. Each volume is written by a specialist and presents a figure from ancient to modern Japanese history.

A biographical series in which specialists portray major figures in Japanese history volume by volume.

A historical novel centered on Katsu Kaishu and his father Kokichi, portraying Edo society on the eve of the late Tokugawa upheavals. Through a turbulent father-son bond, it brings out both the constraints of samurai life and the nerve required in an age of change.

The novel depicts the spirit of the father and son who shaped a statesman of the late Tokugawa era, together with the pulse of Edo life.

A play set in a cheap lodging house in Osaka's Kamagasaki, centered on a money-obsessed proprietress and the people around her. It stages desire, poverty, and family bonds through vivid characters and popular energy.

In a Kamagasaki lodging house, greed, feeling, and the heat of life swirl together.

A large mural cycle centered on the martyrdom of the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan in an Italian church. It joins religious painting traditions with a Japanese artist's perspective, inscribing Japanese martyr history into a church abroad.

Across fresco walls, Japanese martyr history unfolds as prayer.

私の秘密 is a nonfiction or critical work by NHKテレビ芸能局 that was recognized by the 菊池寛賞. Available public sources mainly make it possible to trace its publication form and later inclusion in collections.

NHKテレビ芸能局's 私の秘密 remains traceable today through its award history.

銭形平次捕物控 is a work by 野村胡堂. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.

A prize-winning work by 野村胡堂.

近代文学研究叢書 is a literary work by 昭和女子大学近代文学研究所. Recognized in its award year, it reflects the author's concerns and the atmosphere of its period.

近代文学研究叢書 remains associated with 昭和女子大学近代文学研究所's award-winning career.

官僚にっぽん is a nonfiction or critical work by 毎日新聞社会部 that was recognized by the 菊池寛賞. Available public sources mainly make it possible to trace its publication form and later inclusion in collections.

毎日新聞社会部's 官僚にっぽん remains traceable today through its award history.

マナスルに立つ is a work by 依田孝喜. It is presented here as a prize-winning work, with attention to its subject, tone, and place in the author's career.

A prize-winning work by 依田孝喜.

A long historical novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Drawing on The Tale of the Heike, it follows the Hogen and Heiji conflicts, the Genpei War, the fall of the Taira, and Yoshitsune's wandering as a broad human drama at the birth of samurai rule.

An epic novel centered on the fates of Kiyomori, Yoshitsune, Yoritomo, and others during the transition from late Heian society to the Kamakura order.

夕日、故園 is a work by 川端康成 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1944. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

夕日、故園 is a work by 川端康成 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

慵斎雑記 is a work by 佐藤春夫 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1943. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

慵斎雑記 is a work by 佐藤春夫 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

伴林光平 is a work by 上司小剣 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1943. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

伴林光平 is a work by 上司小剣 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

戦死 is a work by 室生犀星 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1941. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

戦死 is a work by 室生犀星 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

愛と死 is a work by 里見弴 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1940. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

愛と死 is a work by 里見弴 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

愛と死 is a work by 宇野浩二 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1940. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

愛と死 is a work by 宇野浩二 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

愛と死 is a work by 武者小路実篤 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1940. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

愛と死 is a work by 武者小路実篤 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.

仮装人物 is a work by 徳田秋声 recognized by the 菊池寛賞 in 1939. The award record confirms the title and author, while public information confirming a standalone book, paperback, or collection is limited; identifiers for magazine issues are therefore not used.

仮装人物 is a work by 徳田秋声 recorded in the history of the 菊池寛賞.