The 31^st Annual Kokka Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the 31^st Kokka Prize, the award for remarkable research on Japanese and East Asian art, were announced. The Kokka Prize was given to a monograph titled ‘Bukkyō chōzō no seisaku to juyō – Heian jidai o chūshin ni –’ (published in 2019) by OKU Takeo. The Kokka Exhibition Catalog Prize was given to an exhibition catalog titled ‘Torei HIJIKATA: A Retrospective’ (held in 2018 at the Tottori Prefectural Museum) by YAMASHITA Mayumi. (Japanese)