The was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, , one-panel, and satirical manga. The award was also given out for works considered the magnum opus of manga creators.
Past winners of the award include Jōji Yamafuji, Makoto Wada, illustrations by Taku Furukawa, a picture book by Shinto Chō, and parodies by Mad Amano. While the award was given out for illustration, picture books, parodies, and other similar works, the proliferation of the modern manga culture led to more manga artists receiving the awards in recent years.
Bungeishunjū stopped giving out the award in 2002.
Award winners # Year Artist Work 1 1955 Rokurō Taniuchi 2 1956 Yukio Sugiura for his post-war satirical manga 3 1957 Yoshirō Katō 4 1958 Yōji Kuri 5 1959 Shinta Chō 6 1960 Kenji Ogiwara for his historical manga 7 1961 Fuyuhiko Okabe and 8 1962 Machiko Hasegawa Sazae-san 9 1963 Mitsuo Mutsuura for reportage on copper-plate engraving 10 1964 Hidetoshi Umeda Asahi Graph (series) 11 1965 Yōsuke Inoue for his nonsense manga 12 1966 Sanpei Satō and Kazu Kuroiwa Eye for Eye 13 1967 Keiichi Makino 14 1968 Kō Kojima and 7-8=1 15 1969 Makoto Wada for his illustrative likenesses Yoshiji Suzuki for his period manga and adult manga 16 1970 Sadao Shōji and 17 1971 Shōji Yamafuji , , and Shigehisa Sunagawa , , and 18 1972 Fujio Akatsuka Kunihiko Hisa 19 1973 Noboru Baba and Haruo Kobayashi 20 1974 Yū Takita and others Tokū Ogura 21 1975 Osamu Tezuka and Ryūzan Aki and 22 1976 Shunji Sonoyama and others Hideo Takeda 23 1977 Shigeo Fukuda for humor manga derived from home life and toys Takao Kusahara and others 24 1978 Mad Amano for his parody works combining photos with drawings Masahiro Nikaidō and others 25 1979 Taku Furukawa Akiyoshi Shimazoe Gajin Tokuno 26 1980 Shinsuke Maekawa 27 1981 Ajin Noda Tsunemi Kudō 28 1982 Shin Yamada for his political cartoons and other works Yamato Suzuki Masashi Ueda Furiten-kun, , and 29 1983 Yasuji Tanioka for his nonsense and gag manga Iwao Hashimoto 30 1984 Haruo Takahashi and Tokutarō Chiba and 31 1985 Hisaichi Ishii for his nonsense manga Sou Nishimura 32 1986 No award given 33 1987 Seizō Watase Shigeki Andō 34 1988 Hinako Sugiura 35 1989 Katsuhiko Hotta Obatarian 36 1990 Satoshi Kozuki Kojirō 37 1991 Sensha Yoshida 38 1992 Hisashi Eguchi Tatsuya Nakazaki 39 1993 No award given 40 1994 Keisuke Yamashina and 41 1995 Miki Tori 42 1996 Eiko Kera Atashin'chi Mitsuru Yaku and 43 1997 Hiroshi Kurogane Rieko Saibara 44 1998 Sunao Hari for his illustrative likenesses Tsuyoshi Ōhashi Kaishain no Melody 45 1999 Yoshihiro Koizumi Q.B.B. 46 2000 Kotobuki Shiriagari and Nawoki Karasawa 47 2001 Dragon Odawara Akihiro Kikuchi
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See also
List of manga awards
References