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Osaragi Jiro Award おさらぎじろうしょう

Edition 2 (1975)

NovelsNon-fictionHistorical books

Winners

2 people
Kikue Yamakawa やまかわ きくえ award

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.

453 pages
late Edo historyMito Domainwomen’s historyOsaragi Jiro Prize
Hidekazu Yoshida よしだ ひでかず award

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.

617 pages
music criticismart criticismcollected worksOsaragi Jiro Prize