Shiba Ryotaro Award
しばりょうたろうしょう
An annual award honoring Ryotaro Shiba by recognizing creative works across literature, scholarship, and journalism.
- Established
- 1997
- Organizer
- Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Foundation
- Category
- Literature and General Literary Arts
- Selection Method
- Selection
- Target
- Professional
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Announcement Period
- around December
- Status
- Active
Description
Up to the 8th edition, it was awarded to individuals or groups, but from the 9th edition onward, it is awarded to novels and critical works. Announced at the end of every year, the award ceremony is held at the Nanohana-ki Symposium venue on February 12 of the following year. The selection is conducted in three stages: questionnaires to media personnel, candidate selection committee of 11 media companies, and deliberation by the selection committee.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Pocket watch
- Cash Prize
- 1,000,000 JPY
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary selection | Questionnaire to media personnel, writers, scholars, and cultural figures | — | — |
| Secondary selection | Selection by the candidate selection committee of 11 media companies | — | — |
| Final selection | Deliberation by the selection committee | — | — |
Official Resources
http://www.shibazaidan.or.jp/shibasho/Past Winners
This nonfiction work traces, through concrete episodes, the actions of unnamed German citizens who supported Jews in hiding under the Nazi regime. It uncovers the ways people kept faith in others even amid fear.
It gathers the long-untold faces of rescuers back from history.
A historical nonfiction work that traces 36 people involved in the stable period of Manchukuo and reconstructs the reality of the colonial state through a group portrait. Rather than narrating founding and collapse directly, it brings Manchukuo into view through the people who lived between those endpoints.
It sketches the shape of a colonial state through the people who lived inside it.
A comprehensive history of the Chinese Communist Party that traces a century of change through its organizational principles and the making of power. It examines, on the basis of historical sources, how a revolutionary party became a ruling party.
A century of CCP history read through its institutions and the making of power.
This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.
This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.
A new biography of Inukai Tsuyoshi by Hayashi Shin and Horikawa Keiko. It reconsiders Inukai Bokkodo, who lived through the turbulence of party politics, through his loneliness as a politician, his public speech, and his view of the state.
A new portrait of Inukai Bokkodo, the lone wolf who raced through politics.
A new biography of Inukai Tsuyoshi by Hayashi Shin and Horikawa Keiko. It reconsiders Inukai Bokkodo, who lived through the turbulence of party politics, through his loneliness as a politician, his public speech, and his view of the state.
A new portrait of Inukai Bokkodo, the lone wolf who raced through politics.
悪玉伝 by 朝井まかて is introduced here as the award-recognized work. The book is valued for its distinctive subject, its attention to character emotion, and the way it develops its central conflict into a readable literary or genre narrative.
A concise introduction to 悪玉伝, a work shaped by its subject and emotional stakes.
秘密解除 ロッキード事件 by 奥山俊宏 is an award-recognized work. The entry focuses on the published work, its author, and the context in which it was selected.
A concise profile of 奥山俊宏's 秘密解除 ロッキード事件 through its award record.
鬼神の如く 黒田叛臣伝 by 葉室麟 is an award-recognized work. The entry focuses on the published work, its author, and the context in which it was selected.
A concise profile of 葉室麟's 鬼神の如く 黒田叛臣伝 through its award record.
狗賓童子の島 is a work by 飯嶋和一受賞・候補作品。賞の記録で作品名は確認できるが、Amazon JP、NDL OPAC、出版社公式で同名の単行本・文庫・短編集として確実に対応する書誌を確認できなかったため、雑誌号や応募原稿の識別子は採用しない。
Verified information on 狗賓童子の島 is organized as prize-work data.
ノボさん 小説 正岡子規と夏目漱石 is an award-winning work by 伊集院静 recognized by the 司馬遼太郎賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.
ノボさん 小説 正岡子規と夏目漱石 by 伊集院静 was recognized by the 司馬遼太郎賞.
Capa’s Cross is nonfiction that pursues the mystery around Robert Capa’s photograph The Falling Soldier. Kotaro Sawaki examines the location, photographer, and battlefield circumstances, approaching the myth and truth carried by the image.
Field research presses toward the myth and questions embedded in a single photograph.
Tokyo Prison is an award-related work by 赤坂真理. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.
Tokyo Prison offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.
未完のファシズム―「持たざる国」日本の運命 is an award-related work by 片山杜秀. It can be introduced through its subject, setting, and the emotional movement of its characters, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when a standalone book edition could be confirmed.
未完のファシズム―「持たざる国」日本の運命 offers a concise entry point into the work's setting and concerns.
A historical novel that moves from Edo to Tsushima and the Korean peninsula, using horses and human movement to depict borderland history. Broad historical currents intersect with individual fates.
韃靼の馬 is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 辻原登's distinct perspective.
A biography of Emperor Showa written in the context of political history. It examines war, occupation, and the making of postwar Japan through both the individual and the institution.
昭和天皇伝 is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 伊藤之雄's distinct perspective.
A two-volume documentary work on persecution and massacre in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, based on testimony and materials. Through individual memories it follows how state violence destroyed steppe life and community.
From the memories of unnamed dead, it uncovers the history of violence carved into the steppe.
“骸骨ビルの庭(上・下)” is a 2009 award-winning work by 宮本輝. 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.
“骸骨ビルの庭(上・下)” is an important work in the record of 宮本輝’s award recognition.
A compact historical study re-reading Emperor Showa’s political and family relationships in modern Japanese history. It seeks an image of the emperor between institution and individual, avoiding both deification and simple accusation.
A compact historical study re-reading Emperor Showa’s political and family relationships in modern Japanese history.
This critical study rereads Article 9 not as an idea imposed after the war but as the outcome of modern Japanese antiwar and peace thought. It links post-World War I movements to outlaw war with Japanese intellectual history.
The idea of renouncing war did not appear suddenly after 1945; it had flowed through modern Japan like an underground stream.
お腹召しませ is a work by 浅田 次郎. It is presented here as an award-recognized work, with publication identifiers checked against book sources where available.
お腹召しませ, a work by 浅田 次郎.
暗闘 スターリン、トルーマンと日本降伏 is a work by 長谷川 毅. It is presented here as an award-recognized work, with publication identifiers checked against book sources where available.
暗闘 スターリン、トルーマンと日本降伏, a work by 長谷川 毅.
Kenzo Kitakata's grand reimagining of the Chinese classic Water Margin. Beginning with the first volume, Shoko no Sho, it follows those who resist a corrupt state as they move toward Liangshan Marsh.
The resolve of men resisting a corrupt age begins to gather at Liangshan.