Kimura Ihei Award

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**Awards**
year	photographer
1975	Kazuo Kitai
1976
1977	Shin'ya Fujiwara
1978	Miyako Ishiuchi
1979	Mitsuaki Iwagō and Seiji Kurata
1980	Tsuneo Enari
1981	Kanendo Watanabe
1982	Keizō Kitajima
1984	Keiichi Tahara
1985	Kazuyoshi Miyoshi
1986
1987	Ikuo Nakamura
1988	Ryūji Miyamoto
1989	Hana Takeda and Michio Hoshino
1990	Michiko Kon
1991	Toshio Shibata
1992	Mitsugu Ōnishi and Norio Kobayashi
1993
1994	Mitsuhiko Imamori
1995	Masato Seto
1996	Naoya Hatakeyama
1997	Kyōichi Tsuzuki
1998	Takashi Honma
1999	Risaku Suzuki
2000	Hiromix, Yurie Nagashima, and Mika Ninagawa
2001	Rinko Kawauchi and Taiji Matsue
2002	Yuki Onodera and Masafumi Sanai
2003	Tomoko Sawada
2004	Masaki Nakano
2005	Ryūdai Takano
2006	Naoki Honjō and Kayo Ume
2007	Atsushi Okada and Rieko Shiga

The Kimura Ihei Award (木村伊兵衛写真賞, Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō^?) is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.

The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is given to one or more new photographers whose work has been exhibited or published during the previous year and is announced in the April issue of Asahi Camera: its original name, soon shortened, was Asahi Kamera Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō (アサヒカメラ木村伊兵衛写真賞).

The award is given for achievement during the previous year and is usually given to a single photographer. In 2000, the unprecedented awarding of three prizes, each to a female photographer, caused a stir.

Its major rival for attention in the mass media is the Domon Ken Award, given annually to a single photographer, usually one with a more solid background than those who win the Kimura Award.

[edit] Bibliography

(Japanese) Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no nijūnen (木村伊兵衛写真賞の20年, "20 years of the Kimura Ihei Award". Mōru, 1995. ISBN 4-938628-17-1. With sample photographs from each of the award-winners (more from each of them than appear in the later, thirty-year compilation).
(Japanese) Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no kiseki: 1975–1999 (木村伊兵衛写真賞の奇跡：1975–1999, "Remains of the Kimura Ihei Award: 1975–1999"). An exhibition catalogue.
(Japanese) Sanjūroku fotogurafāzu: Kimura Ihei Shashinshō no sanjūnen (36フォトグラファーズ：木村伊兵衛写真賞の30年, "36 photographers: 30 years of the Kimura Ihei Award"). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 2005. ISBN 4-02-272303-3. With sample photographs from each of the award-winners.