Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno. The two connected stories were first published in Japan by Futabasha in Weekly Manga Acti
Cover of the first tankōbon edition of the manga, published by Futabasha
The effects of atomic bombing on Hiroshima
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
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Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shi
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
…beautiful artwork and its quiet but "humane" anti-war message. It received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award. Kumiko Asō won several acting awards for her portrayal of Minami Hirano, one of the two protagonists, in the film adaptation. Town of…
Osamu Tezuka, the prize's namesake, pictured in 1951
Naoki Urasawa, two-time recipient of the Grand Prize (1999, 2005)
Osaka International Institute for Children's Literature, 2008 recipient of the Special Award
Kan Takahama, 2020 recipient of the Grand Prize