A biographical study that traces the shadow of war hidden in the details of Ozu’s films. It brings together a requiem for a close friend and the quiet pain of postwar history.

Reading the shadow of war in the stillness of the screen.

A work of nonfiction that traces wartime air raids and postwar change through the story of a family and its factory in Gotanda. The details of private history bring the outline of a modern city into view.

It sketches the shape of postwar Tokyo through the memory of Gotanda.

A nonfiction work centered on the Ujina Army Shipping Command that uncovers the maritime logistics behind the Pacific War and Hiroshima's wartime history. Through the actions of figures such as Tajiri Shoji, it brings the structure of logistical neglect into view.

The structure of a war that neglected logistics becomes visible from Ujina Harbor.

A nonfiction work that focuses on Hayashi Yoken, the arsonist in the Kinkaku-ji incident, and reconstructs the background of the case from a psychopathological perspective while also referencing Mishima Yukio's 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion'.

It follows the contours of a madness that cannot be reduced to motive.

This major biography follows the ninety-three-year life of thinker Shunsuke Tsurumi from childhood to old age. Through family, study abroad, war, The Science of Thought, and Beheiren, it outlines postwar Japanese thought.

A thinker’s life becomes a way to read postwar Japan’s intellectual history.

This work is introduced as: 太陽の昇らない北極圏を犬橇で旅した探検記。極夜の闇のなかで、人間の感覚と自然への認識が根底から揺さぶられる。

A work centered on 八十日ぶりの太陽が、探検家の世界を変える。

土の記 is an award-recognized work by Kaoru Takamura. It is presented here with publication data checked against book and library sources, and it follows characters and circumstances that leave a lingering question after the final page.

土の記 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

帰郷 is an award-recognized work by Jiro Asada. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

帰郷 is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

朝鮮と日本に生きる−−済州島から猪飼野へ is an award-recognized work by 金時鐘. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

朝鮮と日本に生きる−−済州島から猪飼野へ, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

吉田健一 is an award-winning work by 長谷川郁夫 recognized by the 大佛次郎賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.

吉田健一 by 長谷川郁夫 was recognized by the 大佛次郎賞.

脊梁山脈 is recorded as a 2013 award-winning work. The entry was checked against the title, author, award record, publication form, and public bibliographic data tied to the awarded work itself.

Bibliographic and work information for 脊梁山脈 is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

Inheritance from Mother is a novel about a woman facing her mother's care, conflict with her sister, and her husband's infidelity. Though its subjects are heavy, it layers three generations of memory with an awareness of modern fiction, expanding into a story of aging and independence.

The mother does not die easily, and the daughter must choose her life again amid caregiving and marital reality.

本の魔法 is a 随筆・評論 by 司修. The work is recorded as an award-recognized title and presents its subject through the images suggested by the title, the author's concerns, and the movement of memory or feeling.

本の魔法 presents 司修's work in the form of 随筆・評論.

Kurofune Zenya is a substantial historical work that examines intercultural contact in the North through the relations among Russia, the Ainu, and Japan. Looking before Perry’s Black Ships, it reconsiders encounters and conflicts around Hokkaido, the Kurils, and Sakhalin from a world-historical perspective.

It portrays the human history of Russia, the Ainu, and Japan crossing paths in the northern borderlands before Japan’s opening.

“近代書史” is a 2009 award-winning work by 石川九楊. Bibliographic identifiers are limited to editions that can be confirmed as a standalone book, paperback, or collection, and identifiers for magazine issues are not used.

“近代書史” is an important work in the record of 石川九楊’s award recognition.

出星前夜 is an award-winning work by Kazuichi Iijima. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.

出星前夜 is a work by Kazuichi Iijima recognized by the 大佛次郎賞.

悪人 is an award-winning work by 吉田修一. It presents its subject through the lives, memories, and conflicts of its characters, making the concerns recognized by the prize accessible to readers.

悪人 is an award-winning work in which 吉田修一 depicts human choices and the weight of time.

星新一　一〇〇一話をつくった人 is an award-winning work by 最相葉月. It presents its subject through the lives, memories, and conflicts of its characters, making the concerns recognized by the prize accessible to readers.

星新一　一〇〇一話をつくった人 is an award-winning work in which 最相葉月 depicts human choices and the weight of time.

A nonfiction account of Akira Kurosawa’s conflict with Hollywood over Tora! Tora! Tora! and the circumstances of his departure. Drawing on production materials and testimony, it uncovers the inner workings of an international film project.

Behind a legendary film production, the tension between Akira Kurosawa and Hollywood comes into view.

A historical novel set in Kyoto and Osaka in the Horeki era, bringing together Princess Toshiko, Tanuma Okitsugu, politics, romance, and adventure. Historical and fictional figures intersect in a richly staged narrative.

Across Kyoto and Osaka, history, romance, and adventure come vividly to life.

A critical study that rereads Ihara Saikaku’s personality and works through contemporary sources and courtesan guidebooks. It draws out the emotions and historical sensibility of an author about whom little biographical fact remains.

A study of Saikaku that fills biographical gaps through the spaces between his lines and the voices of his era.

A novel shaped from the experience of a Japanese-language writer stranded in Canada while traveling to the United States after the terrorist attacks. Closed borders, a shattered image of the world, and multilingual perception overlap.

After a shattered world, how can Japanese narrate an experience that crosses borders?

A novel set in a regional city in northeastern Japan, carefully portraying everyday lives and past shadows around a landscape marked by transmission towers.

鉄塔家族 follows its characters through choices and change, guided by the central idea suggested by the award title.

A substantial historical study that follows the Tensho embassy and interprets the encounter between Momoyama Japan and the European world.

クアトロ・ラガッツィ 天正少年使節と世界帝国 follows its characters through choices and change, guided by the central idea suggested by the award title.

The Discovery of Magnetism and Gravity is Yoshitaka Yamamoto's three-volume history of science. It traces changes in the concept of force from antiquity to the early modern period and carefully explains how magnetism and gravity came to be understood as actions at a distance.

A substantial history of science tracing how the idea of action at a distance led toward modern physics.

A critical biography that follows the latter half of Osamu Dazai's life, from his meeting with Michiko to his death at the Tamagawa Aqueduct. It reads his work alongside his private life, tracing the movement of love, faith, and self-destruction.

A biography that illuminates Dazai's private face and literary core through the arc of his later years.

A study of artists under Stalin's Soviet regime as they confronted power, censorship, and terror. Moving across Russian literature, music, and art, it interprets an age in which creation was pinned to politics.

An intellectual history of artists torn between art and dictatorship.

笑いオオカミ is a novel by 津島佑子. It focuses on 喪失と家族の記憶をたどりながら、戦後を生きる人びとの孤独と連帯を描く長編。

笑いオオカミ uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.

遠い崖 アーネスト・サトウ日記抄 is a historical nonfiction by 萩原 延壽. It focuses on 英国外交官アーネスト・サトウの日記を軸に、幕末維新の政治と外交を長大な時間軸で追うシリーズ。

遠い崖 アーネスト・サトウ日記抄 uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.

2000 is an award-recognized work by the author, centered on the concerns suggested by its title and the texture of its people and time.

2000 is a work remembered through its award recognition.

高らかな挽歌 is a work by 高井有一. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

高らかな挽歌 uses 記憶 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

新々百人一首 is a work by 丸谷才一. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

新々百人一首 uses 和歌 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

青年茂吉、壮年茂吉、茂吉彷徨、茂吉晩年 is a work by 北杜夫. Recognized by the 大佛次郎賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.

A work recognized by the 大佛次郎賞, showing 北杜夫's distinctive voice.

源氏物語と白楽天 is an award-recognized work by 中西進. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

源氏物語と白楽天 is a work by 中西進 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

ロバート・フック ニュートンに消された男 is an award-recognized work by 中島秀人. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

ロバート・フック ニュートンに消された男 is a work by 中島秀人 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

平家物語 is a work by 杉本秀太郎 associated with the 大佛次郎賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.

Under the title 平家物語, the work foregrounds 杉本秀太郎's engagement with its subject.

「敗者」の精神史 is a work by 山口昌男 associated with the 大佛次郎賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.

Under the title 「敗者」の精神史, the work foregrounds 山口昌男's engagement with its subject.

A study of heroic figures in American culture, reading their changes across literature, history, and popular culture.

アメリカン・ヒーローの系譜 uses アメリカ文化 as an entry point into human emotion.

A historical novel about the Mito Tengu Party in the late Edo period, portraying people caught between ideals and political reality.

天狗争乱 uses 歴史小説 as an entry point into human emotion.

昭和史 全2巻 is a nonfiction work by 中村隆英. It follows historical figures and social change while connecting an era’s movement with human lives.

昭和史 全2巻 is an award-winning work that concentrates 中村隆英’s style and central concerns.

免疫の意味論 is a nonfiction work by 多田富雄. It follows historical figures and social change while connecting an era’s movement with human lives.

免疫の意味論 is an award-winning work that concentrates 多田富雄’s style and central concerns.

Nihon Ryugaku Seishinshi: Kindai Chugoku Chishikijin no Kiseki is Yan Ansheng's study of the experience of Chinese intellectuals who studied in Japan in the modern era. It places their expectations, dissonance, and shifting political consciousness within East Asian history, including the periods around the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars.

A history of Chinese intellectuals studying in Japan, drawn as a mental history where admiration and wariness intersect.

Nihon Bungeishi, in five volumes, is Jinichi Konishi's major history of Japanese literature, shaped by his own periodization and view of literary art. It examines the development of literature from antiquity to the modern and contemporary eras through changes in genre, expression, and reception.

A large-scale literary history that reorganizes the full history of Japanese literature through changes in genre and expression.

A biography of Shint派 actor Hanayagi Shotaro that follows his life and stage career, placing his art within the changing world of modern Japanese theater.

Through the life of a stage actor, the era of Shingeki and Shinpa theater comes into view.

本の都市リヨン is an award-winning work by 宮下志朗. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

本の都市リヨン, an award-winning work by 宮下志朗.

菅茶山 上・下 is an award-winning work by 富士川英郎. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

菅茶山 上・下, an award-winning work by 富士川英郎.

聖なるロシアを求めて 旧教徒のユートピア is an award-winning work by 中村喜和. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

聖なるロシアを求めて 旧教徒のユートピア, an award-winning work by 中村喜和.

リンネとその使徒たち is an award-winning work by 西村三郎. Using the people, places, or events suggested by its title as a point of entry, it presents human choices and the atmosphere of its time through narrative, criticism, or documentary inquiry.

リンネとその使徒たち brings together the concerns of its period and the author's particular way of seeing.

水俣が映す世界 is an award-winning work by 原田正純. Using the people, places, or events suggested by its title as a point of entry, it presents human choices and the atmosphere of its time through narrative, criticism, or documentary inquiry.

水俣が映す世界 brings together the concerns of its period and the author's particular way of seeing.

韃靼疾風録 上・下 by 司馬遼太郎 is a literary work that follows memory, relationships, and the shadows cast by time. As an award-winning work, it is framed around the concerns suggested by its title and leaves a quiet afterimage for the reader.

韃靼疾風録 上・下 layers people, time, and place behind the force of its compact title.

黒い言葉の空間－三浦梅園の自然哲学 by 山田慶児 is a literary work that follows memory, relationships, and the shadows cast by time. As an award-winning work, it is framed around the concerns suggested by its title and leaves a quiet afterimage for the reader.

黒い言葉の空間－三浦梅園の自然哲学 layers people, time, and place behind the force of its compact title.

アウグスティヌス講話 is a literary work by Yamada Akira and a winner of 大佛次郎賞.

アウグスティヌス講話 is an essential work in the award history of Yamada Akira.

Magoroku Ide follows the lives of Japanese orphans left in China, tracing war, state responsibility after defeat, life after return, and family memory. Through individual testimony, the book reveals an unresolved postwar issue in Japan.

A book that shows, through the voices of Japanese orphans left in China, that the end of war did not end its consequences in individual lives.

Otohiko Kaga’s long novel sets individual lives against the era of student movements, exploring ideology, guilt, faith, and solitude on a broad canvas. The heat of the times intersects with private inner lives, creating a layered portrait of people shaken by social change.

A major novel asking what people believe in, and how they live with wounds, amid the turbulence of an era.

凩（こがらし）の時 is an award-winning work by 大江志乃夫. It presents its subject through careful attention to setting, character choices, and historical or emotional context.

An award-winning work that invites readers into the world of 凩（こがらし）の時.

白夜を旅する人々 is an award-winning work by 三浦哲郎. It presents its subject through careful attention to setting, character choices, and historical or emotional context.

An award-winning work that invites readers into the world of 白夜を旅する人々.

火山島 is a 長編小説 by 金石範. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

火山島 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

絵画の領分 近代日本比較文化史研究 is a 比較文化史研究 by 芳賀徹. It follows the pressures, memories, and relationships suggested by its subject, presenting the work in a compact literary form.

絵画の領分 近代日本比較文化史研究 quietly brings out the texture of memory and its time.

A linked work in which a father, living with his disabled son, reconsiders responsibility and hope. Private family time connects with myth and literary imagination, becoming an urgent call to awaken.

新しい人よ眼ざめよ is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 再生.

An essay collection on dyeing and weaving that reflects on the moment color comes into being and on the spirit of handcraft. Nature, material, and bodily perception resonate through a life devoted to color.

一色一生 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 職人の思想.

戦時期日本の精神史 is a work by 鶴見俊輔 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

戦時期日本の精神史 by 鶴見俊輔 remains associated with its award recognition.

昔話と日本人の心 is a work by 河合隼雄 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

昔話と日本人の心 by 河合隼雄 remains associated with its award recognition.

Set chiefly in Nuremberg, this historical work follows the lives of ordinary people in a medieval city. Through the spread of the money economy, artisans' worlds, festivals, gift exchange, women, and Jews, it depicts medieval Europe as a society in which human relationships and social structures were being deeply transformed.

Looking beyond the cliché of a dark age, the book reveals a major transformation in medieval Europe through ordinary people's lives.

Yoshihiko Uchida uses close readings of Adam Smith, Hajime Kawakami, Nakae Chomin, and others to present the social sciences as a living practice of thought. Rather than observing institutions and theory from outside, he enters their language and structure as one would read a literary work, showing how social understanding can become a question of one's own life.

The book rethinks social science not as abstract theory but as a work through which people read and live society.

This science essay by Nobel laureate Shinichiro Tomonaga follows the historical formation of physics as a way of thinking. Moving from Kepler, Galileo, and Newton to thermodynamics and kinetic theory, it traces how ways of seeing nature emerged and changed, with the perspective of a working physicist felt throughout.

Physics is presented not as a collection of formulas, but as a human effort to question nature and think it through.

A literary history that rereads Japanese literature from antiquity to the postwar period, treating not only poetry and fiction but also thought, religion, historical writing, and popular voices. Centering on responses to outside ideas and changes in indigenous worldviews, it presents a broad intellectual history of Japanese culture.

A major work that broadens the idea of literature and follows the movement of Japanese intellectual life from ancient times to the modern era.

パリの憂愁 - ボードレールのパリ is a 評論・随筆 work by 河盛好蔵, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 河盛好蔵's perspective.

果てなき旅 is a 評論・随筆 work by 日向康, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 日向康's perspective.

A critical biography of Usui Kojima, a pioneer of modern Japanese mountaineering and a contributor to travel writing. It situates his life across mountains, literature, and art within Meiji and Taisho cultural history.

It revives a Meiji-era figure who walked mountains and left prose within cultural history.

A nonfiction work about Fumihiko Otsuki, compiler of Genkai, Japan’s first modern Japanese dictionary. It joins the long labor of dictionary-making with the Meiji era’s urgent concern for language.

Through a life devoted to one dictionary, the sea of modern Japanese language comes into view.

A long biographical study of Francisco de Goya, set amid the turbulence of Spanish history, politics, and art. Through the painter’s eyes, it looks steadily at the light and violence of modern Europe.

ゴヤ reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 堀田善衛.

A collection of essays from 1936 to 1957 tracing the path of thought from wartime conditions toward postwar democracy. Maruyama’s tense political thinking responds to the pressures of the age.

戦中と戦後の間 reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 丸山眞男.

Journey to Dunhuang is Chen Shunshin’s travel writing on Dunhuang and Silk Road history, reading the depth of East-West exchange through Mogao caves and memories of the western regions.

From the landscape of Dunhuang, Silk Road history and culture come alive.

The Heavenly Serpent is a biography of linguist Nikolai Nevsky, tracing his contribution to Japanese cultural studies and the fate of scholarship caught in violent history.

Through the life of a tragic scholar, it depicts the crossing of scholarship and history.

Notes on the Mito Domain at the End of the Edo Period is Kikue Yamakawa’s account of late-Edo Mito history through family memory and historical materials. Her perspective as a women’s historian brings into view family, thought, and local society behind political history.

It redraws late-Edo Mito through family memory and historical consciousness.

The Complete Works of Hidekazu Yoshida gathers Yoshida’s writings centered on music criticism and extending into art, literature, and culture. His criticism is not merely specialist knowledge but prose for listening to, seeing, and thinking about art.

A collected body of work by a critic who raised music criticism to a literary level.

蘆花徳冨健次郎 is a literary work by 中野好夫. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

蘆花徳冨健次郎 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

水底の歌 柿本人麻呂論 is a literary work by 梅原猛. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

水底の歌 柿本人麻呂論 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.