Kyoto Kita Short Story Award きょうときたたんぺんぶんがくしょう
Edition 2 (2023)
Short story
Winners
3 peopleA Kyoto Kita Short Story Award piece about a sister and her brother, who uses a wheelchair, as they rediscover family time through photography.
Taking photographs becomes a way to see the city and themselves anew.
familyKyotophotographycoming of age
A top-prize Kyoto Kita Short Story Award work that follows the meaning of home where memory and the present overlap in northern Kyoto.
Home emerges in the space between the past and the present.
familylocal memoryKyotoshort story
A Kyoto Kita Short Story Award finalist piece in which an onmyoji hunts down a guardian dog that has slipped out of the gate at Kamigamo Shrine.
When the guardian dog escapes, the story crosses into the boundaries of the old capital.
fantasyKyotoguardian dogonmyoji