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Shogakukan Children Publishing Culture Award しょうがくかんじどうしゅっぱんぶんかしょう

Edition 29 (1980)

Children's literaturePicture booksNonfiction

Winners

3 people
Sukeyuki Imanishi いまにし ゆうこう award

Hikari to Kaze to Kumo to Ki to is a children's novel that passes on the memory of the Battle of Okinawa to young readers. With its title evoking light, wind, clouds, and trees, it looks at lives and everyday worlds broken by war and quietly deepens its appeal for peace.

A story that looks at what war took away through the remembered sky and trees of Okinawa.

142 pages
Battle of Okinawawar and peacechildren's literaturepassing on memorynature
Shigeru Kagawa かがわ しげる award

This children's novel portrays a special attack reconnaissance unit attached to the Shimoshizu Army Air Division in Chiba near the end of the war, focusing on young soldiers sent into a cruel mission. Through the viewpoint of a young second lieutenant, it conveys lives disappearing beyond the sky and the pain of futures stolen by war.

Through soldiers heading into the high sky, the novel looks at the cruelty of war and the young lives it takes.

221 pages
children's war literaturespecial attack reconnaissance unityoung soldiersrequiemantiwar
Taiji Harada はらだ たいじ award

An illustrated essay collection in which Taiji Harada turns his gaze toward his native Shinshu through gentle, poetic pictures and prose. Through mountain villages, sky, earth, and everyday lives, it quietly evokes the memory and beauty of home.

An illustrated collection that follows landscapes nurtured by the sky and earth of Shinshu through pictures and words.

102 pages
Shinshuhomeplaceillustrated essaysremembered landscapesnature and daily life