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Naoki Sanjugo Award なおきさんじゅうごしょう

Edition 83 (1980)

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Kuniko Mukoda むこうだ くにこ award

"Hana no Namae," "Kawauso," and "Inugoya" are short stories by Kuniko Mukoda collected in Omoide Trump. With sharp restraint, they portray weakness, slyness, and guilt hidden beneath the gestures and conversations of married life, family, and everyday living.

Three short stories that bring out the weakness and guilt hidden in everyday family and marital life through compact scenes.

225 pages
familymarriageeveryday lifememoryguilt
Kageki Shimoda しもだ けいき award

Kiiroi Kiba is a novel by Kageki Shimoda about the Matagi hunting communities of the mountains of Akita. Set from the Taisho era into the early Showa period, it portrays the pride, rules, families, and sorrow of a hunting society pressed by modernization.

A novel about a Matagi community in the mountains of Akita, shaped by hunting, custom, and the pressures of modernization.

388 pages
Matagi huntersAkitahuntingcommunitymodernization