Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award つるやなんぼくぎきょくしょう
Edition 1 (1998)
PlaysLiterary awards
Winners
1 peopleA play by Ai Nagai, set at a mail-order company. Through the clash between a middle-aged man who despises ranuki expressions and his younger supervisor, it explores language, social relations, honorifics, dialects, and gendered speech.
A social comedy that turns conflict over language into humour and tension, questioning the relationship between Japanese speech and ways of living.
152 pages
Japanese languagehonorificsgenerationsworkplacehuman relationships