Bungeishunjū Manga Award
# Bungeishunjū Manga Award

The Bungeishunjū Manga Award (文藝春秋漫画賞, Bungeishunjū Manga Shō) was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, yonkoma, 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 | The Accidental Child (行ってしまった子, Okonatte Shimatta Ko) |
| 2 | 1956 | Yukio Sugiura | for his post-war satirical manga |
| 3 | 1957 | Yoshirō Katō | Yoshirō Best Manga Works Collection (芳郎傑作漫画集, Yoshirō Kessaku Manga Shū) |
| 4 | 1958 | Yōji Kuri | Kuri Yōji Manga Collection (久利洋次漫画集, Kuri Yōji Manga Shū) |
| 5 | 1959 | Shinta Chō | The Talking Tamagoyaki (おしゃべりなたまごやき, Oshaberi na Tamagoyaki) |
| 6 | 1960 | Kenji Ogiwara | for his historical manga |
| 7 | 1961 | Fuyuhiko Okabe | Acchan (アッちゃん) and Baby Gang (ベビー・ギャング, Bebī Gyangu) |
| 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 | Asakaze-kun (アサカゼ君) and Fuji Santarō (フジ三太郎) |
| 12 | 1966 | Kazu Kuroiwa | Eye for Eye |
| 13 | 1967 | Keiichi Makino | Keiichi Makino Manga Collection (牧野圭一漫画集, Makino Keiichi Manga Shū) |
| 14 | 1968 | Kō Kojima | Nihon no Kaa-chan (日本のおかあちゃん) and 7-8=1 |
| 15 | 1969 | Makoto Wada | for his illustrative likenesses |
| 15 | 1969 | Yoshiji Suzuki | for his period manga and adult manga |
| 16 | 1970 | Sadao Shōji | Tanma-kun (タンマ君) and Shin Manga Bungaku Senshū (新漫画文学全集) |
| 17 | 1971 | Shōji Yamafuji | Chūshō (抽象), Erotopia (エロトピア), and Sesō Aburidashi (世相あぶり出し) |
| 17 | 1971 | Shigehisa Sunagawa | Yoraba Kiru (寄らば斬る), Jūbē (ジュウベー), and Tempura Western (テンプラウエスタン) |
| 18 | 1972 | Fujio Akatsuka | Tensai Bakabon (天才バカボン) |
| 18 | 1972 | Kunihiko Hisa | War: The Manga Annals of the Pacific Ocean (戦争-漫画太平洋戦史, Sensō: Manga Taiheiyō Senshi) |
| 19 | 1973 | Noboru Baba | Baku-san (バクさん) and 11-piki no Neko to Ahōdori (11ぴきのねことあほうどり) |
| 19 | 1973 | Haruo Kobayashi | Hitokuchi Manga (ヒトクチ漫画) |
| 20 | 1974 | Yū Takita | Enka Kyōkyakkei (怨歌橋百景) and others |
| 20 | 1974 | Tokū Ogura | Manga Postcard Gallery (マンガはがきギャラリー, Manga Hagaki Gyararī) |
| 21 | 1975 | Osamu Tezuka | Buddha (ブッダ, Budda) and Dōbutsu Tsurezure Sō (動物つれづれ草) |
| 21 | 1975 | Ryūzan Aki | Qh Jarīzu! (Qhジャリーズ!) and Nohhohon-san (ノッホホン氏) |
| 22 | 1976 | Shunji Sonoyama | Gyātoruzu (ギャートルズ) and others |
| 22 | 1976 | Hideo Takeda | Monmon (もんもん) |
| 23 | 1977 | Shigeo Fukuda | for humor manga derived from home life and toys |
| 23 | 1977 | Takao Kusahara | Midnight Lullaby (真夜中の子守歌, Mayonaka Komoriuta) and others |
| 24 | 1978 | Mad Amano | for his parody works combining photos with drawings |
| 24 | 1978 | Masahiro Nikaidō | Nikaidō Masahiro Ten (二階堂正宏展) and others |
| 25 | 1979 | Taku Furukawa | The Takun Humor (ザ・タクン・ユーモア, Za Takun Yūmoa) |
| 25 | 1979 | Akiyoshi Shimazoe | Ugoku Illust - Mokuzō Omocha (動くイラスト・木造玩具) |
| 25 | 1979 | Gajin Tokuno | Furenzokutai (不連続体) |
| 26 | 1980 | Shinsuke Maekawa | Nakamachi Ginza Shōtengai (中町銀座商店街) |
| 27 | 1981 | Ajin Noda | Paper Illustration (ペーパーイラストレーション, Pēpā Irasutorēshon) |
| 27 | 1981 | Tsunemi Kudō | Tsupparasāru Gakuen (ツッパラサール学園) |
| 28 | 1982 | Shin Yamada | for his political cartoons and other works |
| 28 | 1982 | Yamato Suzuki | Ai MY Tenrankai (哀MY展覧会) |
| 28 | 1982 | Masashi Ueda | Furiten-kun, Masashi-kun (まさし君), and Kariage-kun (かりあげクン) |
| 29 | 1983 | Yasuji Tanioka | for his nonsense and gag manga |
| 29 | 1983 | Iwao Hashimoto | Dotera Neko (どてらネコ) |
| 30 | 1984 | Haruo Takahashi | Iwayuru Hitotsu no Chō-san Shugi (いわゆるひとつのチョーさん主義) and Hyōkin Channel (ひょうきんチャンネル, Hyōkin Channeru) |
| 30 | 1984 | Tokutarō Chiba | Itoshi no Tanaka Kakuei-sama (いとしの田中角栄さま) and Hyōryū (漂流) |
| 31 | 1985 | Hisaichi Ishii | for his nonsense manga |
| 31 | 1985 | Sō Nishimura | Sarari-kun (サラリ君) |
| 32 | 1986 | No award given | No award given |
| 33 | 1987 | Seizō Watase | Phillip, P.I. (私立探偵フィリップ, Shiritsu Tantei Firippu) |
| 33 | 1987 | Shigeki Andō | Yacchan no Kachi! (ヤッちゃんの勝ち!) |
| 34 | 1988 | Hinako Sugiura | Fūryū Edo Suzume (風流江戸雀) |
| 35 | 1989 | Katsuhiko Hotta | Obatarian |
| 36 | 1990 | Satoshi Kozuki | Parano Tengoku (パラノ天国) |
| 36 | 1990 | Kojirō | Buttama Gerira (ぶったまゲリラ) |
| 37 | 1991 | Sensha Yoshida | Utsurun Desu. (伝染るんです。) |
| 38 | 1992 | Hisashi Eguchi | Hisashi Eguchi's Dynamite Dinner Show (江口寿史の爆発ディナーショー, Eguchi Hisashi no Bakuhatsu Dinā Shō) |
| 38 | 1992 | Tatsuya Nakazaki | Problem Salaryman (問題サラリーMAN, Mondai Sarariman) |
| 39 | 1993 | No award given | No award given |
| 40 | 1994 | Keisuke Yamashina | C-class Salaryman Course (C級さらりーまん講座, Shīkyū Sarariman Kōza) and Chūryū Zukan (中流図鑑) |
| 41 | 1995 | Miki Tori | Tōku e Ikitai (遠くへいきたい) |
| 42 | 1996 | Eiko Kera | Atashin'chi |
| 42 | 1996 | Mitsuru Yaku | Yaku Mitsuru no Sanmen Manga (やくみつるの三面マンガ) and Oni no Yaku Medama (オニのやく目玉) |
| 43 | 1997 | Hiroshi Kurogane | Shinsengumi (新撰組) |
| 43 | 1997 | Rieko Saibara | Bokunchi (ぼくんち) |
| 44 | 1998 | Sunao Hari | for his illustrative likenesses |
| 44 | 1998 | Tsuyoshi Ōhashi | Kaishain no Melody |
| 45 | 1999 | Yoshihiro Koizumi | Buddha and Shittaka Buddha (ブッダとシッタカブッダ, Budda to Shittaka Budda) |
| 45 | 1999 | Q.B.B. | Junior High Student Diary (中学生日記, Chūgakusei Nikki) |
| 46 | 2000 | Kotobuki Shiriagari | Jiji Oyaji 2000 (時事おやじ2000) and Yuruyuru Oyaji (ゆるゆるおやじ) |
| 46 | 2000 | Nawoki Karasawa | Dennōen (電脳炎) |
| 47 | 2001 | Dragon Odawara | Kogal Sushi (コギャル寿司, Kogyaru Sushi) |
| 47 | 2001 | Akihiro Kikuchi | Mekappi Kibochimaru (メカッピキポチ丸) |

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