The 27^th Annual Kokka Prize Winners Announced

The winners of the 27^th Kokka Prize, an award for remarkable research on Japanese and East Asian art, were announced. The Kokka Prize was given to a monograph titled ‘Tō Sō sansuiga kenkyū’ (Chūō kōron bijutsu shuppan, 2015) by TAKENAMI Haruka (Kyoto City University of Arts). The Kokka Special Prize was given to an article titled ‘Nōmen geijutsu no keisei’ (Kokka, Vol. 1431 & 1436, 2015) by TANABE Saburōsuke (Professor Emeritus at Musashino Art University). The Kokka Exhibition Catalog Prize was given to an exhibition catalog titled ‘Buddhist sculpture of Kyushu region’ (Fukuoka City Museum, 2014) by SUEYOSHI Takeshi. (Japanese)