The 74^th Japan Art Academy Prize Recipients Announced

On March 22, the Japan Art Academy (Director: KUROI Senji) announced the recipients of the 74^th Japan Art Academy Prize. The Imperial Prize and the Japan Art Academy Prize were given to TABUCHI Toshio (for his nihonga painting ‘Uzushio’, exhibited at the Centennial exhibition of Japan Art Institute’s Revival) in the Fine Arts category; and HAGA Tōru (for his monograph titled ‘Bunmei to shite no Tokugawa nihon: 1603-1853’) in the Literature category. In the Fine Arts category, YUYAMA Toshihisa (for his yōga painting titled ‘l’Aube (yoake), exhibited at the third Kaiso Shin-Nitten)’, MITAMURA Arisumi (for his lacquerwork titled ‘Tsuki no hikari Sono saki ni’, exhibited at the third Kaiso Shin-Nitten) and TSUCHIHASHI Yasuko (for her calligraphy titled ‘Katsushika no sato’, exhibited at the fourth Kaiso Shin-Nitten) received the Japan Art Academy Prize. (Japanese)