Five people including Sugako Hashida on the Order of Culture October 27, 13:29
Five people, including screenwriter Sugako Hashida, were selected as recipients of this year's Order of Culture.
The following people will receive the Order of Culture.
Screenwriter Sugako Hashida, real name Sugako Iwasaki (95).
Doll writer Sayume Okuda (83).
As a doll writer representing Japan, he has released many excellent works and continues to contribute to the development of the craft world, such as being evaluated for his modern style that goes beyond the boundaries of traditional dolls.
Jun Kubota (87), an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo and specializing in Japanese literature.
Characterized by a novel work analysis backed by a deep and broad culture of all classics, he made outstanding achievements in the study of Japanese poetry and medieval literature, and greatly contributed to the development of Japanese literature.
Jun Kondo (90), an emeritus professor at Toho University who specializes in condensed matter physics.
He has made extremely remarkable achievements in theoretically elucidating the cause of changes in electrical resistance during cooling of metal containing impurities to extremely low temperatures.
There are a total of five sculptors, Kiichi Sumikawa (89).
The Order of Culture parenting ceremony will be held at the Imperial Palace on the 3rd of next month.
Mr. Hashida "I want to think about how an elderly person lives alone"
Screenwriter Sugako Hashida, who receives the Order of Culture, is 95 years old, born in 1918.
In 1945, he joined the movie company "Shochiku" and started working as a screenwriter. After that, he produced many popular TV dramas as a freelance screenwriter.
In particular, "Oshin," which was broadcast on NHK in 1983, not only received high praise as a nationally popular drama, but was also broadcast worldwide in more than 60 countries and regions, mainly in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It caused a big boom.
In addition, the commercial TV drama "Wataru Seken wa Oni-jitsu" has become a long-lived program that has been broadcast more than 500 times since its broadcast in 1990, incorporating phenomena occurring in society while depicting ordinary everyday life. It is highly regarded as a masterpiece of dry home drama.
Mr. Hashida received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1988 and was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2015.
Regarding receiving the Order of Culture, Mr. Hashida said, "I don't think TV is a culture, and I haven't realized it yet. I like TV so that even grandpa and grandma can watch it in the tea room, so I wrote a drama. With actors, directors, and staff, my script will finally come to life, so it's thanks to you, not the power of me alone, "he said with joy." I can only write in my age. I can't write, so I'd like to prepare for the elderly to live alone and think about how to live. "
Kiichi Sumikawa "Study for a lifetime"
Kiichi Sumikawa, a sculptor who receives the Cultural Medal, is from Shimane prefecture and is 89 years old.
After studying sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, he made his debut in 1959 and received high praise for his series of works called "Sori no Aru Katsura", which is a combination of carved wood into curved shapes.
After that, he won numerous awards for abstract sculpture using stones and metals, and while he was active, he taught younger generations at Tokyo University of the Arts and was also the president of the university from 1995 to 2001.
In addition, he has made many achievements in the design of large-scale buildings in outdoor public spaces, and has worked on the Kawasaki artificial island "Kaze no Tou" on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, the monument of the National Museum of Nature and Science, and the Tokyo Sky Tree. I supervised the design of.
He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1998 and was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2008.
Regarding receiving the Order of Culture, Mr. Sumikawa said, "I am full of unexpected feelings. Looking back on my past works, I am often satisfied that I made such a big thing, but as I get older Looking at it, I regret that I should have done this a little more, and I think that I have to continue studying for the rest of my life. While I am happy with the Order of Culture, I also feel the weight, but I think that I still have to do my best in the future. " I was talking.