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Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Grand Award よこみぞせいしみすてりあんどほらーたいしょう

Edition 5 (1985)

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Winners

5 people
Ryusei Ishii いしい りゅうせい award

This Akutagawa Prize-winning story follows a woman living in Southern California as a thirteen-year return to New York forces her to face the distance from her husband's family and the pressure created by a ritual rooted in blood ties. Everyday life between cultures and the tension within the family build quietly throughout the narrative.

As she faces the family ritual, the protagonist's sense of place begins to shift.

198 pages
family tensionlife between culturesa Jewish family rituala mother's perspective
Manami Ihara いはら まなみ award

A co-written mystery by Ryusei Ishii and Manami Ihara centered on a cipher hidden in postage-stamp designs.

As the cipher in the designs is decoded, the shape of the case comes into view.

360 pages
cipherco-authored novelclassic mystery
中川英一 なかがわ えいいち honorable mention

This work was confirmed as a prize entry, but no standalone book edition could be verified.

No book edition could be confirmed via Amazon JP, NDL, or the publisher official site.

prize entryliterary magazine publication
Masahiro Mori もり まさひろ honorable mention

An early novel and Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Prize runner-up centered on Hokusai mysteries and an unpublished manuscript.

A new Hokusai-related manuscript and a case intersect.

311 pages
art mysteryburied treasureHokusai
安永龍 やすなが りゅう nominee

This work was confirmed as a prize entry, but no standalone book edition could be verified.

No book edition could be confirmed via Amazon JP, NDL, or the publisher official site.

prize entryliterary magazine publication