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Yu Literary Award

ゆうぶんがくしょう

Open call newcomer literary award for kaidan literature sponsored by KADOKAWA Corporation, Kadokawa Shoten.

KaidanOpen callNewcomer literary award
Established
2006
Organizer
KADOKAWA Corporation, Kadokawa Shoten
Category
Genre Fiction
Selection Method
Open call
Target
Newcomer
Frequency
1 per year
Application Deadline
around August–September
Announcement Period
around January–February
Status
Ended

Description

Established in 2006 as the literary specialist newcomer award for the kaidan specialist magazine ''Yu''. Solicits long-form and short-form works in the kaidan genre. Grand prize winners receive an original blue andon lantern as the principal prize, with sub-prizes of 300,000 yen for the long-form category and 200,000 yen for the short-form category. Long-form grand prize works are published as single volumes by ''Yu Books'', and short-form grand prize works are published in the ''Yu'' magazine. Ended after the 10th edition (2015).

Prize

Main Prize
Original blue andon lantern (principal prize)
Cash Prize
300,000 JPY
  • Sub-prize: Long-form category 300000 yen
  • Sub-prize: Short-form category 200000 yen
  • Long-form grand prize work published by ''Yu Books''
  • Short-form grand prize work published in ''Yu'' magazine

Selection

Selection Process

First selection
Judges Editorial department
Final selection
Judges Selection committee (Shimako Iwai, Natsuhiko Kyōgoku, Yōsuke Takahashi, Takeji Nanjō, Masao Higashi, Kōkatsu Kihara)
Announcement Winning works are announced in the ''Yu'' magazine

Related Awards

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Official Resources

https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/notfound.html

Past Winners

一色さゆり encouragement award

悪い月が昇る is a work by 藤森計 associated with the 『幽』文学賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

悪い月が昇る by 藤森計 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

award-recognized workpersonal choicessociety and memory
城山真一 grand prize

やみ窓 is a work by 篠たまき associated with the 『幽』文学賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

やみ窓 by 篠たまき is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

award-recognized workpersonal choicessociety and memory
大津光央 honorable mention

目出し帽の女 is a work by 椎名寅生 associated with the 『幽』文学賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.

目出し帽の女 by 椎名寅生 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.

award-recognized workpersonal choicessociety and memory
降田天 honorable mention

五月は薄闇の内に 耕書堂奇談 is an award-recognized 時代小説 by 風花千里. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

五月は薄闇の内に 耕書堂奇談 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

144 pages
award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict

黒落語 is an award-recognized 小説 by 近藤五郎. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

黒落語 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

232 pages
award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict

因業羅漢谷 is an award-recognized 時代小説 by 鷹尾東雨. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

因業羅漢谷 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict
山本巧次 encouragement award

彼女と地獄のはなし is an award-recognized 小説 by 鵠東きみ. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

彼女と地獄のはなし looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict
加藤鉄児 grand prize

美しい果実 is an award-recognized 小説 by 唐瓜直. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

美しい果実 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

264 pages
award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict
山野ねこ encouragement award

いぬのかお is an award-recognized 小説 by 山野ねこ. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

いぬのかお looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict

須賀幌の市 is an award-recognized 時代小説 by 並木将介. Public bibliographic records and award information frame it as a work concerned with personal choice, memory, and the pressure of its social or historical setting.

須賀幌の市 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.

award-winning workmemoryrelationshipssocietyconflict
梶永正史 grand prize

天竺 is a 受賞作 by 石川緑 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for 天竺, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

award-winning work受賞作2013
八木圭一 special award

この世の富 is a 受賞作 by 添田小萩 recognized in the relevant 2013 literary award cycle. The entry summarizes the work as a prize-listed title based on the available bibliographic record.

Bibliographic and descriptive notes for この世の富, recorded as a 2013 award-winning work.

award-winning work受賞作2013
越谷友華 encouragement award

顔剥ぎ観音 is an award-winning work by naitouryou. This entry summarizes the work from award records and public bibliographic sources.

A work whose profile and availability can be traced through its award history.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
影山匙 grand prize

そこはかさん is an award-winning work by sakitomoko. This entry summarizes the work from award records and public bibliographic sources.

A work whose profile and availability can be traced through its award history.

award-winning workcontemporary literaturebibliographic verification
安生正 encouragement award

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

霜月の花 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
新藤卓広 runner-up grand prize

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

地蔵の背 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

埃家 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
あいま祐樹 honorable mention

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

置いてけ堀 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

奇妙な孤独・他三篇 invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

literary award winnerpersonal choicesmemory and relationships
小瀬朧 honorable mention

壷中遊魚 is an award-listed work by 沙木とも子. No reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection record was confirmed, so this entry records the work information without book identifiers.

壷中遊魚 by 沙木とも子 is recorded here at the work level from the award record.

award-winning workhuman relationshipsstory

奇譚百話綴り is an award-listed work by 内藤了. No reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection record was confirmed, so this entry records the work information without book identifiers.

奇譚百話綴り by 内藤了 is recorded here at the work level from the award record.

award-winning workhuman relationshipsstory
告鳥友紀 grand prize

鳥のうた、魚のうた is a work by 小島水青 recorded in the 2011-1 award data. A book-format record was confirmed, so its bibliographic data can be treated at the work level.

鳥のうた、魚のうた by 小島水青 is recorded here at the work level from the award record.

234 pages
award-winning workhuman relationshipsstory
伊与原新 grand prize

A 怪談・幻想小説 work by 三輪チサ. As an award-recognized work, it depicts unease entering everyday life and a sense of place within a compact form.

From behind a small incident, an overlooked strangeness rises into view.

怪談・幻想小説everyday uneaseplaceaftertaste
蓮見恭子 honorable mention

A 幻想小説 work by 靍井通眞. As an award-recognized work, it depicts unease entering everyday life and a sense of place within a compact form.

From behind a small incident, an overlooked strangeness rises into view.

幻想小説everyday uneaseplaceaftertaste
佐倉淳一 grand prize

A 児童向け幻想小説 work by 金魚屋. As an award-recognized work, it depicts unease entering everyday life and a sense of place within a compact form.

From behind a small incident, an overlooked strangeness rises into view.

児童向け幻想小説everyday uneaseplaceaftertaste
神沼三平太 honorable mention

A 怪談・幻想小説 work by 仲町六絵. As an award-recognized work, it depicts unease entering everyday life and a sense of place within a compact form.

From behind a small incident, an overlooked strangeness rises into view.

怪談・幻想小説everyday uneaseplaceaftertaste

A 幻想小説 work by 有井聡. As an award-recognized work, it depicts unease entering everyday life and a sense of place within a compact form.

From behind a small incident, an overlooked strangeness rises into view.

幻想小説everyday uneaseplaceaftertaste
大門剛明 honorable mention

A historical ghost story based on the Tako Jizo legend of Kishiwada, set against the land and faith of the Warring States period. It is confirmed as an honorable mention in the long-form division of the fourth Yu Ghost Story Literary Award.

The Tako Jizo legend is linked to the uncanny faith and landscape of the Warring States period.

ghost storyhistorical fictionTako Jizolegend
白石かおる grand prize

A ghost story told in the first person by a woman living in an old Kyoto house, depicting an uncanny family hidden in the home and the guilt of the past. The Kyoto dialect and domestic texture slowly build unease.

From within Kyoto speech, things living in the house and the sins of the past begin to seep out.

253 pages
ghost storyKyotohouseguilt

Originally awarded as Sumika and later retitled Fujiko, this ghost story became the title work of Fujiko: Island Ghost Stories. It begins when a traveler impulsively buys a guesthouse and gradually reveals strange ties among place and people.

A guesthouse acquired on a trip draws in the fates of land and people.

240 pages
ghost storyislandguesthousefateful ties
石居椎 honorable mention

A short story collected in an anthology of ghost stories about houses and places. It links memories of reed fields with the sense that ordinary deaths repeat like a dance.

In the memory of a reed field, the presence of ordinary death begins to dance.

ghost storyhousememory of placedeath
望月武 grand prize

枯骨の恋, by 岡部えつ, is an award-recognized work. It follows the movement of its characters’ minds and surrounding world, drawing out the conflict and change behind its concise title.

枯骨の恋, by 岡部えつ, is an award-recognized work.

256 pages
charactersconflictchange
桂美人 special award

Set in a licensed quarter, this novel portrays people’s lives and burdens together with an atmosphere of the uncanny. The voices of women placed within history and the memory held by the place shape the story.

遊郭(さと)のはなし is an award-recognized 小説 by 長島槇子.

256 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
大村友貴美 grand prize

This unsettling novel depicts fear close to everyday life and the tremors of the human mind. With the texture of a ghost story, it quietly brings loneliness and attachment into view.

あちん is an award-recognized 小説 by 雀野日名子.

176 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
松下麻理緒 excellence award

Beginning with strange events around a mysterious stone, the story follows shifting ties between a girl and the people around her. Later published as Ryuuganseki to Tadanaranu Musume, it mixes the uncanny with human feeling.

竜岩石 is an award-recognized 小説 by 勝山海百合.

259 pages
memoryrelationshipsaward-recognized work
桂木希 grand prize

夜は一緒に散歩しよ is a work by 黒史郎. It was selected for the 『幽』文学賞 in 2006.

A work by 黒史郎 recognized by the 『幽』文学賞.

『幽』文学賞大賞
大石直紀 excellence award

七面坂心中 is a work by 水沫流人. It was selected for the 『幽』文学賞 in 2006.

A work by 水沫流人 recognized by the 『幽』文学賞.

『幽』文学賞優秀賞
江崎来人 grand prize

るんびにの子供 is a work by 宇佐美まこと. It was selected for the 『幽』文学賞 in 2006.

A work by 宇佐美まこと recognized by the 『幽』文学賞.

『幽』文学賞大賞