Japanese Literary Awards

← Back to Literary Awards

Robo no Ishi Literary Award

ろぼうのいしぶんがくしょう

A literary award established by the Ishikawa Cultural Foundation.

Literary Award
Established
1979
Organizer
Ishikawa Cultural Foundation
Category
Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Status
Ended

Description

To honor the achievements of Yamamoto Yuzo, the author of "Robo no Ishi," it is awarded to various works. It has been on hiatus since the 23rd award (2001). Tochigi City, Yamamoto Yuzo Hometown Memorial Association, and Ishikawa Cultural Foundation—the three parties—are considering new initiatives.

Related Awards

  • Robo no Ishi Juvenile Literary Award

Past Winners

Nahoko Uehashi うえばし なほこ award

精霊の守り人 is a children's fantasy by 上橋 菜穂子. It focuses on 女用心棒バルサが、精霊の卵を宿した皇子チャグムを守るため追手と運命に立ち向かう。

精霊の守り人 uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.

325 pages
memorysocietyrelationships
Mitsuyo Kakuta つのだ みつよ award

キッドナップ・ツアー is a work by 角田光代. 少女が別居中の父に連れ出され、ぎこちない旅の中で親子の距離を測り直す児童文学。軽やかな語りの奥に家族の痛みがあります。

キッドナップ・ツアー centers on 家族 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.

275 pages
家族少女の成長
Taro Gomi ごみ たろう award

ときどきの少年 is a work by 五味太郎. 少年期の感覚を絵と言葉で切り取る作品。ユーモアと余白のある表現で、子どもの内面や世界の見え方を描きます。

ときどきの少年 centers on 少年期 and presents its characters through a distinctive literary frame.

少年期絵と言葉日常
Kaori Ekuni えくに かおり award

ぼくの小鳥ちゃん is a work by 江國香織. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

ぼくの小鳥ちゃん uses 小鳥 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

小鳥孤独日常愛着
Takako Sato さとう たかこ award

イグアナくんのおじゃまな毎日 is a work by 佐藤多佳子. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

イグアナくんのおじゃまな毎日 uses 児童文学 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

児童文学ペット家族日常
Mori Eto もり えと award

アーモンド入りチョコレートのワルツ is a work by 森絵都. Recognized by the 路傍の石文学賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.

A work recognized by the 路傍の石文学賞, showing 森絵都's distinctive voice.

230 pages
literatureaward-winning work
Ryohei Komiyama こみやま りょうへい special award

千曲川-そして、明日の海へ is a work by 小宮山量平. Recognized by the 路傍の石文学賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.

A work recognized by the 路傍の石文学賞, showing 小宮山量平's distinctive voice.

349 pages
literatureaward-winning work
Taku Miki みき たく award

イヌのヒロシ is an award-recognized work by 三木卓. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

イヌのヒロシ is a work by 三木卓 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

award-recognized worksocietymemorypeople
Toshiko Kanzawa かみざわ りこ award

神沢利子コレクション 全5巻 is a work by 神沢利子 associated with the 路傍の石文学賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.

Under the title 神沢利子コレクション 全5巻, the work foregrounds 神沢利子's engagement with its subject.

award-winning work路傍の石文学賞people and timememory
Naruko Iwase いわせ なるこ award

迷い鳥とぶ、ステゴザウルス is a 文学作品 by 岩瀬成子. It is known as a 1995 award-recognized work and can be introduced through its title, genre, and authorial context.

A work that conveys 岩瀬成子's style through the world suggested by the title 迷い鳥とぶ、ステゴザウルス.

文学作品award-recognized work1995
Masamoto Nasu なす まさみき award

A story about tricksters that explores weakness, resilience, and the risk involved in trusting others.

さぎ師たちの空 uses 児童文学 as an entry point into human emotion.

255 pages
児童文学詐欺信頼成長
Yamashita Haruo やました あきお award

カモメの家 is a children’s literary work by 山下明生. It stays close to a child’s point of view and portrays growth, imagination, and relationships.

カモメの家 is an award-winning work that concentrates 山下明生’s style and central concerns.

children’s literaturegrowthimagination
Shuhei Hasegawa はせがわ しゅうへい award

The award recognized Shuhei Hasegawa's Stone and Diamond and Pencil Sketches of Mr. Koike together. The two books approach family, expression, and young sensibility, asking questions about how to live beyond the usual frame of children's literature.

Family memory and the longing for expression quietly move the young protagonists.

children's literaturefamilyartgrowth
Hiroshi Nagata ながた ひろし award

深呼吸の必要、心の中にもっている問題 by 長田弘 is a prize-recognized work. 日常の言葉を静かに見つめ、呼吸や心の置き場を問い直す詩的な作品群。内面に残る違和感や沈黙を丁寧にすくい上げる。

深呼吸の必要、心の中にもっている問題 shows the central qualities of 長田弘.

award-recognized workliterary expressionmemory and relationships
Keiko Takada たかだ けいこ award

ざわめきやまない is an award-winning work by 高田桂子. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

ざわめきやまない, an award-winning work by 高田桂子.

287 pages
award-winning workliterature
Katsuhiko Funazaki ふなざき かつひこ award

ぽっぺん先生シリーズ is a 文学作品 by 舟崎克彦. Recognized by the award, it centers on the scene or relationship suggested by its title and draws the reader into memory, place, and the atmosphere of its time.

As an award-recognized work, ぽっぺん先生シリーズ leaves a sense of people and their era beneath its quiet title.

award-recognized work文学作品memoryperiod atmosphere
Keiko Hamada はまだ けいこ award

まぼろしの難波宮―山根徳太郎物語 is a work for younger readers by 浜田けい子, attentive to growing up, family, friendship, and the pleasure of discovering the world.

まぼろしの難波宮―山根徳太郎物語 is a work for younger readers by 浜田けい子, attentive to growing up, family, friendship, and the pleasure of discovering the world.

269 pages
children's literaturegrowthfamilyfriendship
Yoshitomo Imae いまえ しょうとも award

ぼんぼん is a work for younger readers by 今江祥智, attentive to growing up, family, friendship, and the pleasure of discovering the world.

ぼんぼん is a work for younger readers by 今江祥智, attentive to growing up, family, friendship, and the pleasure of discovering the world.

496 pages
children's literaturegrowthfamilyfriendship
Tomiko Inui いぬい とみこ award

光の消えた日 is a children's book by Inui Tomiko and a winner of 路傍の石文学賞.

光の消えた日 is an essential work in the award history of Inui Tomiko.

298 pages
coming of agefamilyimagination
Sukeyuki Imanishi いまにし すけゆき award

Sukeyuki Imanishi’s children’s novel brings together Hokkaido, Ainu history, and a boy’s growth. Memories of people living close to nature and the boy’s encounter with another culture quietly sustain the story.

A work of children’s literature that joins northern memory with a boy’s growth and passes history on through story.

308 pages
children’s literatureAinu culturenaturecoming of agehistorical memory
Shigeru Nishimura にしむら しげる award

母恋い放浪記 is a 自伝的小説 by 西村滋. This payload records the award-winning work with the bibliographic information that could be confirmed.

母恋い放浪記 represents award-recognized work by 西村滋.

299 pages
award-winning work自伝的小説
Eiko Kadono かどの えいこ award

わたしのママはしずかさん is a prize-winning work shaped by its subject matter and the author's point of view. Through the people, places, events, or memories suggested by the title, it conveys the atmosphere of its time and the tensions of human relationships.

わたしのママはしずかさん draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

award-winning workhuman relationshipsperiod atmospherememorysociety
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi くろやなぎ てつこ award

An autobiographical work portraying days at Tomoe Gakuen through a child’s point of view. A headmaster’s attentive care and a free learning environment allow one girl’s individuality to flourish.

窓ぎわのトットちゃん is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 記憶.

295 pages
schoolchildren individualitymemory
Sugō Hiroshi すごう ひろし award

A children’s novel about the uncertainty and joy found in education, seen through a young teacher caring for children. The story is sustained by the weight of nurturing others and the children’s direct responses.

子守学校の女先生 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 成長.

children literatureeducationgrowth
Sô Kuramoto くらもと そう award

北の国から is a work by 倉本聰 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.

北の国から by 倉本聰 remains associated with its award recognition.

award-winning work1980s literatureauthorial themes
Takesaki Yuuhi たけざき ゆうひ award

Set in 1941 as war spreads, this children's novel follows a Christian middle-school boy as he observes religion and war through his school life. The setting of a school connected to the Shinpuren tradition brings together faith, nation, and the inner life of a boy.

In wartime school life, a boy looks at faith and war with his own eyes.

396 pages
warfaithmiddle-school studentschool lifechildren's literature
Takashi Kawamura かわむら たかし award

This children's work by Takashi Kawamura depicts village life with cattle through a child's eyes. Layering the separation of a cow and calf, family life, and deep empathy for animals, it quietly brings out the labor of rural life and the emotions bound up with living creatures.

As a girl watches a cow's tears, the pain of parting between humans and animals becomes one continuous feeling.

214 pages
rural lifecattle and humanspartinga child's sensitivityempathy for living beings
Kenjiro Haitani はいたに けんじろう award

太陽の子 is a 児童文学 work by 灰谷健次郎, 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 灰谷健次郎's perspective.

growthimaginationfamily and society