Japanese Literary Awards

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Shibata Renzaburo Award しばたれんざぶろうしょう

Edition 4 (1991)

NovelContemporary fictionHistorical fictionEntertainment fiction

Winners

2 people
Kenzo Kitakata きたかた けんぞう award

Hagun no Hoshi is Kenzo Kitakata's historical novel centered on Kitabatake Akiie, a warrior of the Nanboku-cho period. Through the charge and frustration of a young commander, it depicts ideals, war, and the torrent of history in powerful prose.

The novel portrays the life of a young warrior racing through a turbulent age with intense prose.

185 pages
Nanboku-cho periodwarriorideal and defeathistorical fiction
Tokuzō Miyamoto みやもと とくぞう award

Kohoki is a historical novel by Tokuzo Miyamoto. Against a background of war and power, it depicts how weapons, technology, and ambition move human fate, layering the harshness of the age with human obsession.

The novel turns the weapons and ambitions that move an age of war into a story of human fate.

historical fictionwartechnology and weaponsambition