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Edition 24 (1976)

Essay

Winners

3 people
Koji Nakano なかの こうじ award

Journey to Bruegel is an essayistic journey from an encounter with Bruegel’s painting toward self-examination and European history, illuminating anonymous lives under oppression and the author’s inner life.

Led by a single painting, the journey deepens into self-examination and a gaze toward history.

186 pages
essaypaintingtravelself-examination
Shoichi Watanabe わたべ しょういち award

The Age of Corruption is an essayistic work of social and cultural criticism by Shoichi Watanabe, viewing the loosening of values and intellectual climate from a conservative critical stance.

Essays that question the slackening in the atmosphere of the age as cultural criticism.

238 pages
essaycultural criticismsocial criticismvalues
Hideko Takamine たかみね ひでこ award

Watashi no Tosei Nikki is Hideko Takamine’s autobiographical essay work, recounting her life as an actor with memories of cinema, the harshness of work, and sharp human observation.

Work and life are told through the eyes of someone who lived through the film world.

autobiographical essaycinemaactor’s lifememory