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Osaragi Jiro Award おさらぎじろうしょう

Edition 47 (2020)

NovelsNon-fictionHistorical books

Winners

1 people
Takeshi Utsumi うつみ けん award

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.

228 pages
Hayashi YokenMishima Yukiopsychopathologymadnessnonfiction