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Kikuchi Kan Award きくちかんしょう

Edition 14 (1960)

Literary award

Winners

4 people
Kazuo Kikuta きくた かずお award

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.

dramaOsakapoverty
Mokichi Ishii いしい もきち award
Nichiyō Gekijō (Toshiba Sunday Theater) とうしば にちようげきじょう award
Luke Hasegawa はせがわ ろか award

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.

mural paintingreligious artTwenty-Six Martyrs of Japan