Kishida Prize for Drama explained

The is a Japanese theater award given by the publisher Hakusuisha in honor of the playwright Kunio Kishida. It was begun in 1955 to honor new playwrights,^[1] and is known in Japan as the gateway to recognition for contemporary playwrights.^[2]

List of winners

1955–1960

• 1955 - Not awarded
  • Honorable mention: Seiichi Yashiro
• 1956 - Kiichi Ohashi for and Kinji Obata for
• 1957 - Not awarded
  • Honorable mention:
• 1958 - Hotta Hotta Kiyomi for
• 1959 - Not awarded
  • Honorable mention: Yoshiyuki Fukuda and of Gen'ichi Hara and Masayuki Hiroda
• 1960 - Masaru Kobayashi for and Hisako Hayasaka for

1961–1970

• 1961 - Not awarded
• 1962 - Ken Miyamoto for and Shuichiro Yagi for (The Beggar Docks and Six Sons) and (The Conveyor Belt That Never Stops)
• 1963 - Masakazu Yamazaki for
• 1964 - Hitomi Kakuhiko for and Ryuichi Suga for and Yoshiyuki Fukuda for
• 1965 - Not awarded
• 1966 - Koji Kawamata for and Masayuki Hirota for
• 1968 - Minoru Betsuyaku for and
• 1969 - Satoshi Akihama for ua
• 1970 - Juro Kara for

1971–1980

• 1971 - Makoto Sato for
• 1972 - Hisashi Inoue to
• 1974 - Kōhei Tsuka for and Kunio Shimizu for
• 1975 - Not awarded
  • Honorable mention: Tomiko Ishizawa
• 1976 - Tomiko Ishizawa for
• 1977 - Not awarded
• 1978 - Shōgo Oda and Seishin Chinen for
• 1979 - Kodai Okabe for
• 1980 - Ren Saitō for

1981–1990

• 1981 - Jūichirō Takeuchi for
• 1982 - Tetsu Yamazaki for and
• 1983 - Hideki Noda for and Kiyokazu Yamamoto for and Eri Watanabe for
• 1984 - Sō Kitamura for
• 1985 - Rio Kishida for
• 1986 - Takeshi Kawamura for
• 1987 - Not awarded
• 1988 - Yasuhiko Ohashi for
• 1989 - Riyo Iwamatsu for
• 1990 - Not awarded

1991–2000

• 1991 - Yōji Sakate for
• 1992 - Kensuke Yokouchi for
• 1993 - Akio Miyazawa for and Miri Yū for
• 1994 - Yoshinobu Tei for
• 1995 - Shoji Kokami for and Orisa Horisa for
• 1996 - Toshirō Suzue for and Masataka Matsuda for
• 1997 - Suzuki Matsuo for
• 1998 - Fukatsu Shigefumi for
• 1999 - Keralino Sandorovich (KERA) for
• 2000 - Ai Nagai for

2001–2010

• 2001 - Kōki Mitani for
• 2002 - Not awarded
• 2003 - Kazuki Nakashima for
• 2004 - Yutaka Kuramochi for
• 2005 - Kankurō Kudō for and Toshiki Okada for Five Days in March (
• 2006 - Norohiko Tsukuda for and Daisuke Miuara for
• 2007 - Not awarded
• 2008 - Shirō Maeda for
• 2009 - Ryuta Horai for and Yukiko Motoya for
• 2010 - Yukio Shiba for

2010s

• 2011 - Shū Matsui for
• 2012 - Seiji Nozoe for and Fujita Takahiro for and Mikuni Yanaihana for
• 2013 - Masaaki Akahori for and Hideto Iwai for ^[3]
• 2014 - Ameya Norimizu for Blue Sheet (Japanese: ブルーシート)^[4]
• 2015 - Kenji Yamauchi for Troisgros (トロワグロ)
• 2016 - Kuro Tanino for The Dark Inn (地獄谷温泉 無明ノ宿)
• 2017 - Makoto Ueda for This New World that Had to Come (来てけつかるべき新世界)
• 2018 - Kamisato Yūdai for Valparaiso no nagai saka o kudaru hanashi (バルパライソの長い坂をくだる話) and Fukuhara Mitsunori for Atarashii explosion (あたらしいエクスプロージョン)
• 2019 - Shuntaro Matsubara for "Yamayama" (I Would Prefer Not To)
• 2020 - Satoko Ichihara for "The Bacchae – Holstein Milk Cows"; and Kenichi Tani for "Fukushima Trilogy"

References

1. Web site: Kishida Kunio Gikyokushō. Kotobanku. Asahi Shinbun. 14 December 2014.
2. Web site: 53rd Kishida Kunio Drama Award goes to Ryuta Horai and Yukiko Motoya in a double awarding. 9 March 2016.
3. Web site: 第57回（2013年）岸田國士戯曲賞を赤堀雅秋・岩井秀人が受賞. Performing Arts Network. Japan Foundation. 14 December 2014. Japanese.
4. Web site: Play of the Month Blue Sheet. Performing Arts Network. Japan Foundation. 20 August 2015.

External links

• http://www.hakusuisha.co.jp/kishida/list.php