An essay collection that reads Mishima Yukio's work and thought through Hirano Keiichiro's own reading experience.

Reading Mishima is also a way of reexamining contemporary language.

"音楽の危機《第九》が歌えなくなった日" is a 受賞 work from the Kobayashi Hideo Award 2021-1. It stands out for its distinctive premise and atmosphere.

A 受賞 work from Kobayashi Hideo Award 2021-1.

Shukichi Hirayama's Eto Jun Revives is a full-scale biography of the critic Jun Eto, built from extensive research and documentation. It follows his work on Soseki, postwar criticism, American experience, conservative thought, marriage, and final years, rereading postwar Japanese discourse through Eto's life.

A substantial biography that brings the central postwar critic Jun Eto back into view through both his brilliance and his wounds.

仏教の中心概念である無常を、超越と実存という視点から読み直す思想的な論考。歴史的な仏教理解と、現代を生きる人間の苦悩が交差する。

無常をめぐる仏教史から、現代の生の根を問い直す。

This work excavates the middle voice that precedes the active/passive binary through linguistics, philosophy, and questions raised by addiction. It reconsiders modern assumptions about will and responsibility and connects them to Spinoza's account of freedom.

The book uses the lost grammar of the middle voice to think about forms of action that cannot be captured by doing and being done to.

数学する身体 is a work by 森田真生 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 数学する身体.

A nonfiction work in which Eiji Oguma follows his father's life through military service, Siberian internment, postwar displacement, and life during high economic growth. Through one personal history, it shows how wartime experience persisted in postwar Japanese life.

It reads the continuity between war and postwar life through the later life of one returning Japanese soldier.

月日の残像 is an award-winning work by 山田太一. The available bibliographic record identifies it as the work associated with this award entry.

月日の残像 by 山田太一.

Painter Akira Yamaguchi uses the “strangeness” of Japanese art to read the shifts in pictorial expression from the early modern period into modernity. The essays open specialized questions through the eye of a practicing artist and a lively voice.

Through a painter’s eye, the book follows the odd charm and twists of Japanese art.

This dialogue between conductor Seiji Ozawa and novelist Haruki Murakami explores how to listen to classical music, how to read scores, the bodily sense of performers, and differences among recordings. Through conversations on Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and others, it conveys the pleasure of listening.

A world-renowned conductor and a novelist listen across recordings and move deeper into music.

This dialogue between conductor Seiji Ozawa and novelist Haruki Murakami explores how to listen to classical music, how to read scores, the bodily sense of performers, and differences among recordings. Through conversations on Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and others, it conveys the pleasure of listening.

A world-renowned conductor and a novelist listen across recordings and move deeper into music.

A nonfiction journey into personal roots through family registers, crests, relatives, and the memory of places. It combines the seriousness of genealogical research with the author's relaxed, comic eye.

The question of whose descendant one is turns into a journey through Japan.

それでも、日本人は「戦争」を選んだ is a critical work that rereads literature or history in order to question contemporary imagination and social choices, using close reading to reveal the problems of its age.

それでも、日本人は「戦争」を選んだ is a prize-recognized work by 加藤陽子.

日本語が亡びるとき：英語の世紀の中で is a work of criticism and research by 水村美苗. It centers on 思想と知の探究 and layers in 言葉と社会, showing the distinct qualities of an award-winning work.

日本語が亡びるとき：英語の世紀の中で is an important criticism and research work in the award history of 水村美苗.

'寡黙なる巨人' is a winning work of the 小林秀雄賞 by Tomio Tada.

'寡黙なる巨人' is a winning work of the 小林秀雄賞 by Tomio Tada.

A critical study that rereads Jewish culture and antisemitism through intellectual history, questioning the assumptions behind fixed ideas.

私家版・ユダヤ文化論 draws readers in through its focus on Jewish culture.

A collection of Yoji Arakawa's literary criticism, sharply reading contemporary writers and works while questioning the form of the literary column itself.

A critical collection that refines the feel of reading literature through the language of literary commentary.

A science essay that uses qualia as a starting point to consider how the brain gives rise to both reality and imagination. Rather than confining the mind to neuroscience alone, it expands the discussion to other minds, imagination, and the limits of modern science.

The book looks at the brain's power of imagination from both scientific and philosophical angles.

An essay collection on aging, family, and mortality, written with frankness, humor, and an unsentimental gaze.

An essay collection on aging, family, and mortality, written with frankness, humor, and an unsentimental gaze.

A work of thought exploring symmetry in the human mind through myth, gift exchange, and religious imagination, part of the Cahier Sauvage series.

A work of thought exploring symmetry in the human mind through myth, gift exchange, and religious imagination, part of the Cahier Sauvage series.

An economic essay that explains the institution of the corporation from the ground up and asks how Japanese companies should change as capitalism moves beyond its industrial phase. It reconnects legal personality, employment, shareholder rule, and Japanese capitalism to question the future of work.

Starting from the question of who a company belongs to, the book considers the future of Japanese capitalism.

A lecture-based critical reading of Natsume Soseki’s major works, reconsidering darkness, anxiety, youth, and temperament through Takaaki Yoshimoto’s thought. It traces a path between Soseki as a national writer and Soseki as an inward, troubled figure.

Through Soseki’s novels, the book rereads the anxieties of modern Japan and the writer’s temperament.

「三島由紀夫」とはなにものだったのか is an award-recognized work by 橋本治. It uses the impression carried by its title as an entry point into the movement of people and the atmosphere around them.

「三島由紀夫」とはなにものだったのか presents the literary world of 橋本治 as an award-recognized work.

文章読本さん江 is an award-recognized work by 斎藤美奈子. It uses the impression carried by its title as an entry point into the movement of people and the atmosphere around them.

文章読本さん江 presents the literary world of 斎藤美奈子 as an award-recognized work.