Kikuchi Kan Award きくちかんしょう
Edition 14 (1960)
Literary award
Winners
4 peopleA 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
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