Yugawara Literature Award
ゆがわらぶんがくしょう
A public literary award hosted by Yugawara Town, Kanagawa. The haiku division continues to be held annually (24th edition in 2025), while the fiction division concluded in 2020 after its 20th edition.
- Established
- 2001
- Organizer
- Yugawara Literature Award Executive Committee (Yugawara Town, Kanagawa Prefecture)
- Category
- Literature and General Literary Arts
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
The Yugawara Literary Award is a public newcomer literary prize established in 2001 by Yugawara Town, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its haiku division continues to be held annually — reaching its 24th edition in 2025 — welcoming themed seasonal haiku entries from across Japan, with the poet Madoka Mayuzumi serving as the judge and a prize of 50,000 yen awarded for the grand prize. The fiction division ended in 2020 after its 20th edition; winning works had been published in Shodensha's literary magazine Shosetsu NON.
Prize
- Main Prize
- Publication of the grand prize-winning work (Novel category)
- Award certificate
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selection | Novel category: Kyotaro Nishimura, Haiku category: Madoka Mayuzumi | — | — |
Related Awards
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E8%B3%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E8%B3%9E
Official Resources
http://www.town.yugawara.kanagawa.jp/kyoiku/bungaku/Past Winners
行き止まりの百日紅 is an award-winning work by 奥田謙治. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.
行き止まりの百日紅 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.
A story that portrays the life of Sanjugo Naoki through the form of a storyteller's narration. It is confirmed as the top-prize work in the fiction division of the Yugawara Literary Prize, but no book, paperback, or collection publication could be confirmed for the award-time text.
An award-winning work that uses the voice of oral storytelling to illuminate the life of writer Sanjugo Naoki.
The grand-prize work in the fiction division of the Yugawara Literary Award. The award is confirmed through municipal and local-news sources, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed, so it is treated as a submitted work rather than a book.
An award-winning submitted work with no confirmed standalone book publication.
武蔵の太刀 is an award-winning work by 鳥とおる. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.
武蔵の太刀 looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.
お稽古日和 is an award-recognized work by 森明日香. It is presented as a work shaped by character choices, a sense of time and place, and a lingering question after the final page.
お稽古日和 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.
続相州霊異記 is a work by 藤原圭太 associated with the 湯河原文学賞. Based on the award record, it is presented as a work that invites readers to follow the intersections of character, period, society, and memory.
続相州霊異記 by 藤原圭太 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read together with bibliographic traces.
昭和文豪殺人事件 is an award-recognized ミステリー by 矢間景太郎. 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.
昭和文豪殺人事件 looks at the relationship between individual lives and their times through the shape of an award-winning work.
苺レモネード is an award-winning work by aoyama-mio. 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.
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.
お客さん、どちらまで? invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.
友 is a work by 花月 recorded in the 2011-1 award data. A book-format record was confirmed, so its bibliographic data can be treated at the work level.
友 by 花月 is recorded here at the work level from the award record.
A 短編 work by 細井麻奈美. 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.
A 俳句 work by 松下美奈子. 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.
An award-winning work by 星野ゆかり for the Yugawara Literary Award. It can be confirmed as a regional literary-prize work, but no standalone book containing the awarded work could be confirmed.
A regional literary-prize work titled 澪標(みおつくし).
An award-winning work by 小沢千代子 for the Yugawara Literary Award. It can be confirmed as a regional literary-prize work, but no standalone book containing the awarded work could be confirmed.
A regional literary-prize work titled 風よりも 低く屈みて よもぎつむ.
ばっきん千円 is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures. It draws the distortions of its time from concrete scenes.
ばっきん千円 is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures.
川風を たっぷり入れて 芋煮会 condenses season and a moment of daily life into a brief fixed form. Its spare language brings the scene and human presence into focus.
川風を たっぷり入れて 芋煮会 condenses season and a moment of daily life into a brief fixed form.
This short story received the top award in the fiction division of the Yugawara Literary Prize. Its title suggests a muted gray atmosphere, and it appears to center on a woman’s inner life and the feel of place; no book publication was confirmed.
鈍色(にびいろ)の女 is an award-recognized 短編小説 by 鞍智美知子.
This haiku connects the everyday act of airing bedding with a life lived close to the sea. Vast nature and the tactile feel of daily living meet quietly in a single poem.
海いつも見てゐる暮し布団干す is an award-recognized 俳句 by 沼田葉桜子.
夫婦の情景 is a work by 春野京. It was selected for the 湯河原文学賞 in 2006.
A work by 春野京 recognized by the 湯河原文学賞.
Set in Yugawara, this story follows an inn proprietress struggling with panic disorder and depression as she moves toward recovery with support from her husband and those around her. The local landscape and days of convalescence give the work a quiet emotional force.
The light of plum blossoms against the dark illuminates the time of a person beginning to walk out of illness.
Recorded as a special-prize story of the Yugawara Literary Award, this short work evokes the pale light of winter and the shadows of human feeling in a local setting.
The low winter sun reflects the faint warmth left in a person’s heart.
朝焼けギムレット is a fictional work by 樫田哲平. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.
The title 朝焼けギムレット conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.
Kasenjiki by Keiko Suzuki won the top prize in the fiction division of the Yugawara Literary Prize. With a riverside open space as its title, it appears to be a locally grounded short story about daily life and emotional distance.
The open space by the river reflects human life and memory.
追憶 〜冬の蛍〜 by 平塚晶人 is a work that draws readers into its subject through carefully shaped scenes and language.
A compact work that leaves a clear afterimage through its voice and structure.
This short story uses a single photograph to call back scenes buried in memory. From a small visual trace, a person's time and feeling expand.
一枚の写真 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 荻野修司.