Kyoka Izumi literary prize

Kyoka Izumi (Izumi, today)

Kyoka Izumi (1873-1939)

Kyoka who lost mother at the age of 9. If wave was abusive, as for the work, the world of fantasy was begun to spin in form called novel and drama for deceased mother admiration by base. We run including fictionization in the Showa era in the Taisho era from the Meiji middle, and it is full with great writer before long, and Kyoka who brought about work of more than 300 parts comes to be declared with genius again.

Masterpiece includes "Kaijin villa" (kaijimbesso) "castle tower story" "Utaandon" (utaandon) "itinerant priest of Mt.Koya" "putting great importance on doing what is right chivalrous spirit" (giketsukyoketsu) "fukeizu" (onnakeizu).

With Kyoka literary prize

We consist of two prizes of "Kyoka Izumi literary prize" and "Kyoka Izumi memory Kanazawa citizen literary prize".

For superior literary work, we assume Kyoka literary prize donation suruo purpose to plan the cultural traditional succession development of Motoichi that produced many literary people, and to contribute to improvement of citizen's culture standard.

Kyoka Izumi literary prize

Literary prize that Kanazawa-shi hosts
Literary prize that was established for national-scale literary prize hosted by local government ahead of the whole country in 1973

We were born in Kanazawa and were full of achievement of Kyoka Izumi who did great contribution for modern Japanese literary arts and had people recognize climate and tradition of Kanazawa who brought up Kyoka literature in total widely and expected flowering of rich area culture through literary arts and established this prize in 1973.
For superior literary work published as book newly in each year, we take in method of citizen participation in the selection and decide candidate work by recommendation selection of recommendation person, member of a selection committee.

　[member of a selection committee]　(random order, honorific title abbreviation)

Hiroyuki Itsuki, Tomomi Muramatsu, Mieko Kanai, Kozaburo Arashiyama, Eimi Yamada, Risa Wataya

　[target work]

Fragrant, high work of romance knowing the literature world of Kyoka Izumi by literary work (limited to novel, book including drama) which assumes August 1 basic date every year, and was published for Susumu one year

(in 2019, work published for from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019 applies)

　[commendation]
　　　Main prize "copper mirror with a frame of eight petals" (bee Ryo today)
　　　Supplementary prize prize money 1 million yen

2019 47th prize winner

Shinya Tanaka
　"The chick sun" (Shinchosha)

Award ceremony is held in Kanazawa citizen art village on Saturday, November 9, 2019.

　　[Kyoka literary prize award ceremony]
　　　Date and time Saturday, November 9, 2019 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30
　　　Venue Kanazawa citizen art village pafomingusukuea
　　　Speeches by awarding, member of a selection committee and prize winner of contents Kyoka Izumi literary prize, Kanazawa citizen literary prize

The 47th Kyoka literary prize award ceremony flyer (Portable Document Format: 248 kbytes)

Conventional prize winner

Time	The year	Work name	Author name
1	48, Showa	Mt. spiritual power birthing and nourishing all things confidential record	Ryo Hanmura
1	48, Showa	Shadow which flies	Toshio Moriuchi
2	49, Showa	Gambling at cards of nightmare	Hideo Nakai
3	50, Showa	Room of sweet honey	Mari Mori
4	51, Showa	Seducer	Takako Takahashi
5	52, Showa	Doubtful visitor book	Budai Irokawa
5	52, Showa	Bed of grass	Yuko Tsushima
6	53, Showa	Starfish, kappa (in people raincoat)	Juro Kara
7	54, Showa	Halo of extinction	Taku Mayumura
7	54, Showa	Romance of Plato	Mieko Kanai
8	55, Showa	My soul is shining water	Kunio Shimizu
8	55, Showa	Snow fairy	Makiko Mori
9	56, Showa	Arabesque story	Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
9	56, Showa	Empty people	Yasutaka Tsutsui
10	57, Showa	Embrace	Keizo Hino
11	58, Showa	As for the night of ogres, it is deep	Kazuko Saegusa
11	58, Showa	Woman who shines	Haku Kohiyama
12	59, Showa	"Yakumo spoiled" "kai*"	Baku Akae
13	60, Showa	Scenery of the urge to kill	Shunzo Miyawaki
14	61, Showa	Single cell	Mizuko Masuda
15	62, Showa	Amateur non country street note	Yumiko Kurahashi
15	62, Showa	Roam of shuji	Hideo Asaine
16	63, Showa	Folded paper crane	Tsumao Awasaka
16	63, Showa	Moonlight shadow ("kitchen" inclusion)	Banana Yoshimoto
17	Origin of Heisei	Chilly wind bar	Taka Isawa
17	Origin of Heisei	Mio Fukagawa Street doorman hut	Aiko Kitahara
18	2, Heisei	Mud train	Jokichi Hikage
19	3, Heisei	Dance rou, Maya	yu* angel
20	4, Heisei	Boy who runs	Megumu Sagisawa
20	4, Heisei	The equinoctial week teacher	Masahiko Shimada
21	5, Heisei	Child of mourning dress	Michiko Yamamoto
22	6, Heisei	No applicable work
23	7, Heisei	Direction of dream	Akira Tsuji
24	8, Heisei	Full house	Yu Mi Ri
24	8, Heisei	Animal logic	Eimi Yamada
25	9, Heisei	Woman of Kamakura	Tomomi Muramatsu
25	9, Heisei	Iyemon to laugh at	Natsuhiko Kyogoku
26	10, Heisei	Break up for rain of Dotombori; and thereafter － Senryu writer, Suifu Kishimoto and the time	Seiko Tanabe
27	11, Heisei	Husband of box	Tomoko Yoshida
27	11, Heisei	Neo-rabbi lint "Eros of fantasy" of Suehiro Tanemura others	Suehiro Tanemura
28	12, Heisei	In the case of tea of daisy	Yoko Tawada
29	13, Heisei	*々kannichiroku	Teruhiko Kuze
29	13, Heisei	World of the dead forest daughter curious information	Yoriko Shono
30	14, Heisei	Sentence business to "literary world" and that	Akiyuki Nosaka
31	15, Heisei	Shrine of day to shine	Saiichi Maruya
31	15, Heisei	Grotesquerie	Natsuo Kirino
32	16, Heisei	Burial of Bram	Yoko Ogawa
33	17, Heisei	Chicken Calcutta fantasy of paradise	Michiko Ryou
34	18, Heisei	Villain Basho	Kozaburo Arashiyama
35	19, Heisei	Way former reverend (the top, bottom)	Wahei Tatematsu
36	20, Heisei	Short piece of grass sliding and others	Keishi Nagi
36	20, Heisei	buruurando	Tadanori Yokoo
37	21, Heisei	Fish God	Chihaya madder
38	22, Heisei	Memory of beggar nosusume death impurity and Asura	Masahiro Shinoda
39	23, Heisei	Scenery	Jakucho Setochi
39	23, Heisei	Oedo fishing visitor biography (the top, bottom)	Baku Yumemakura
40	24, Heisei	Child of distance	Mitsuyo Kakuta
41	25, Heisei	Going ancient times now	Beach Kenichiro Saki
42	26, Heisei	When wife was shiitake	Kyoko Nakajima
42	26, Heisei	Gift	Masayo Koike
43	27, Heisei	There is the abode of spirits	Mayumi Nagano
43	27, Heisei	Bone wind	Katsuyuki Shinohara
44	28, Heisei	It does not seem to be carried off by big chicken	Hiromi Kawakami
45	29, Heisei	Dearest child	Rieko Matsuura
46	30, Heisei	Peacock which flies	Yuko Yamao
47	Origin of Reiwa	The chick sun	Shinya Tanaka

Reference

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