The 31^st Annual Kokka Award Recipients Announced

The recipients of the 31^st Kokka Award, an award for remarkable research on Japanese and East Asian art, were announced. The Kokka Award 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 Award was given to an exhibition catalog titled ‘Torei HIJIKATA: A Retrospective’ (held in 2018 at the Tottori Prefectural Museum) by YAMASHITA Mayumi. (Japanese)