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, and is known in Japan as the gateway to recognition for contemporary playwrights.
List of winners
1955âÂÂ1960
- 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
1961âÂÂ1970
- 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
1971âÂÂ1980
- 1971 - Makoto Sato for
- 1972 - Hisashi Inoue to
- 1974 - KÃ
Âhei Tsuka for and Kunio Shimizu for
- 1975 - Not awarded
- Honorable mention: Tomiko Ishizawa
- 1976 - Tomiko Ishizawa for
- 1977 - Not awarded
- 1978 - ShÃ
Âgo Oda and Seishin Chinen for
- 1979 - Kodai Okabe for
- 1980 - Ren SaitÃ
 for
1981âÂÂ1990
- 1981 - JÃ
«ichirÃ
 Takeuchi for
- 1982 - Tetsu Yamazaki for and
- 1983 - Hideki Noda for and Kiyokazu Yamamoto for and Eri Watanabe for
- 1984 - SÃ
 Kitamura for
- 1985 - Rio Kishida for
- 1986 - Takeshi Kawamura for
- 1987 - Not awarded
- 1988 - Yasuhiko Ohashi for
- 1989 - Riyo Iwamatsu for
- 1990 - Not awarded
1991âÂÂ2000
- 1991 - YÃ
Âji Sakate for
- 1992 - Kensuke Yokouchi for
- 1993 - Akio Miyazawa for and Miri YÃ
« for
- 1994 - Yoshinobu Tei for
- 1995 - Shoji Kokami for and Orisa Horisa for
- 1996 - ToshirÃ
 Suzue for and Masataka Matsuda for
- 1997 - Suzuki Matsuo for
- 1998 - Fukatsu Shigefumi for
- 1999 - Keralino Sandorovich (KERA) for
- 2000 - Ai Nagai for
2001âÂÂ2010
2010s
- 2011 - ShÃ
« Matsui for
- 2012 - Seiji Nozoe for and Fujita Takahiro for and Mikuni Yanaihana for
- 2013 - Masaaki Akahori for and Hideto Iwai for
- 2014 - Ameya Norimizu for Blue Sheet ()
- 2015 - Kenji Yamauchi for Troisgros (ãÂÂãÂÂã¯ã°ãÂÂ)
- 2016 - Kuro Tanino for The Dark Inn (å°çÂÂ谷温泠ç¡æÂÂãÂÂ宿)
- 2017 - Makoto Ueda for This New World that Had to Come (æÂ¥ã¦ãÂÂã¤ãÂÂãÂÂã¹ãÂÂæÂ°ä¸ÂçÂÂ)
- 2018 - Kamisato YÃ
«dai for Valparaiso no nagai saka o kudaru hanashi (ãÂÂã«ãÂÂã©ã¤ã½ã®é·ãÂÂÃ¥ÂÂãÂÂãÂÂã ãÂÂ話) and Fukuhara Mitsunori for Atarashii explosion (ãÂÂãÂÂãÂÂãÂÂãÂÂã¨ã¯ã¹ãÂÂãÂÂã¼ã¸ã§ã³)
- 2019 - Shuntaro Matsubara for "Yamayama" (I Would Prefer Not To)
- 2020 - Satoko Ichihara for "The Bacchae â Holstein Milk Cows"; and Kenichi Tani for "Fukushima Trilogy"
References
External links
- http://www.hakusuisha.co.jp/kishida/list.php