Person with special cultural merit
The distinction as a person with special cultural merits ( Japanese 文化 功 労 者 , Bunka Kōrōsha ) was introduced to give a person who has made a special and significant contribution to the development and progress of the culture of Japan , a cash donation an honorary salary: according to the law, the cultural order awarded by the emperor may not be combined with a donation of money. The award has been given since 1951, whereby the holders of the cultural order who had been honored up to that point were subsequently named persons with special cultural merits, so that they too could benefit from the donation. Every year around 15 people are honored, some of them - since the 1970s - at the same time as the higher-ranking cultural order .
The appointment of the person with special cultural merit is made by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and is considered a significant honor in Japan. The award is for life and comes with a pension payment of 3.5 million yen (approx. 34,000 euros, 2011) annually. The total expense for these pension payments in 2009 was approximately 800 million yen. The payment and its amount is regulated by the Pension Act for people with special cultural merits ( 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 , Bunka Kōrōsha Nenkinhō ). The sum of 3.5 million yen was set in 1982 in the implementing provisions for the Pension Act ( 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 施行 令 , Bunka Kōrōsha Nenkinhō Shikōrei ).
A selection committee, made up of university professors and writers, pre-selects the candidates, from which the minister determines the laureates . The winners will be announced together with the announcement of the laureates for the Japanese Cultural Order on November 3rd, Culture Day . For some years now, the award has not only taken into account the fields of art and science, but also film, handicrafts, sports and the like. a. The nationality of the awardees is not an exclusion criterion, but it is rare: so far the award has been given to three non-Japanese people: in 1999 to Marius Berthus Jansen, in 2002 to Donald Keene and in 2010 to Wáng Zhēnzhì ( Sadaharu Oh ).
By November 2016, 842 people had received the award.
Complete list of persons with special cultural merits
1951 to 1959
- 1951: Honda Kōtarō (physicist and metallurgist) - Sasaki Nobutsuna (writer) - Yokoyama Taikan (painter) - Takagi Teiji (mathematician) - Kawai Gyokudō (painter) - Sasaki Takaoki (doctor) - Itō Chūta - Asahina Yasuhiko (chemist) - Yukawa Hideki (physicist) - Wada Eisaku (painter) - Tanakadate Aikitsu (geophysicist) - Okabe Kinjirō (electrical engineer) - Shiga Kiyoshi (doctor, bacteriologist) - Nakada Kaoru (lawyer) - Tawara Kuniichi (metallurgist) - Kihara Hitoshi (geneticist) - Hasegawa Nyozekan (journalist) - Asakura Fumio (sculptor) - Yasuda Yukihiko (painter) - Tsuda Sōkichi (historian) - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Buddhologist) - Okada Takematsu (meteorologist) - Majima Rikō (chemist) - Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (writer) - Shiga Naoya (writer) - Makino Eiichi (lawyer) - Tanabe Hajime (philosopher) - Fujii Kenjirō (botanist, geneticist) - Mishima Tokushichi (metallurgist) - Kobayashi Kokei (painter) - Doi Bansui (poet) - Masamune Hakuchō (writer, Playwright) - Mitsuda Kensuk e (pathologist) - Makino Tomitarō (botanist)
- 1952: Yanagita Kunio (ethnologist) - Kikuchi Seishi (physicist) - Saitō Mokichi (poet) - Mushanokōji Saneatsu (writer, painter) - Nakamura Kichiemon I ( Kabuki actor) - Umehara Ryūzaburō (painter) - Kumagai Taizō Sasaki (medic) - Sōichi (lawyer) - Tsuji Zennosuke (historian) - Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (physicist) - Nagai Kafū (playwright, essayist) - Yasui Sōtarō (painter) - Ui Hakju (monk, Buddhologist) - Yabe Hisakatsu (geoscientist) - Yamazaki Chūun ( Sculptor)
- 1953: Andō Hirotarō (agricultural scientist) - Itaya Hazan (potter) - Ogawa Mimei (children's book author) - Kanbe Masao (lawyer, economist) - Katori Hotsuma ( caster , writer) - Kita Roppeita (Nō actor) - Kitajima Taichi (doctor, bacteriologist ) - Nakamura Seiji (physicist) - Haneda Tōru (historian) - Yamada Yoshio (linguist)
- 1954: Katsunuma Seizō (doctor) - Kaburagi Kiyokata (painter) - Kindaichi Kyōsuke (linguist) - Shiota Hiroshige (surgeon) - Takahama Kyoshi (writer) - Hagihara Yūsuke (astronomer) - Hirakushi Denchū (sculptor) - Matsumura shōnen - Yamada Kōsaku (composer) - Yamada Saburō
- 1955: Ōtani Takejirō (businessman) - Kitamura Rokurō (Onnagata) - Shibusawa Motoji (electrical engineer) - Kineya Jōkan ( Shamisen player) - Hiranuma Ryōzō (businessman, politician) - Futaki Kenzō (doctor) - Maeda Seison (painter) - Masumoto Hakaru (physicist) - Yamashita Shintarō (painter) - Watsuji Tetsurō (philosopher)
- 1956: Komori Shichirō (post office clerk) - Sakamoto Hanjirō (painter) - Maki Yūkō (mountaineer) - Shinmura Izuru (linguist) - Furuhata Tanemoto (forensic doctor ) - Murakami Takejirō (metallurgist) - Yagi Hidetsugu (physicist)
- 1957: Ogata Tomozaburō (pathologist) - Kubota Mantarō (writer) - Kodaira Kunihiko (mathematician) - Nishiyama Suishō (painter) - Yoshizumi Kosaburō (ballad singer) - Katō Yogorō (chemist) - Shioiri Matsusaburō (soil scientist) - Nakazawa Hiromitsu (painter) - Yanagi Muneyoshi (religious philosopher) - Wada Sanzō (painter)
- 1958: Kitamura Seibō - Kondō Heizaburō (pharmacologist) - Nozoe Tetsuo (chemist) - Matsubayashi Keigetsu (painter) - Kameyama Naoto (chemist) - Suzuki Torao (literary scholar) - Takahashi Satomi (philosopher) - Andō Kō (violinist) - Kubota Utsubo ( Poet) - Wada Sanzō (painter)
- 1959: Kawabata Ryūshi (painter) - Koizumi Shinzō (economist) - Niwa Yasujirō (electrical engineer) - Satomi Ton (writer) - Yoshida Tomizō (doctor) - Itō Seiya (agricultural scientist) - Ichikawa Sanki (English scholar ) - Ueno Naoteru (philosopher) - Tsuji Hisashi (painter) - Yashida Bungorō (puppeteer)
1960 to 1969
- 1960: Oka Kiyoshi (mathematician) - Satō Haruo (poet) - Tanaka Kōtarō (lawyer) - Yoshikawa Eiji (writer) - Imamura Arao (physician) - Ono Akimasa (mechanical engineer) - Tanaka Kan'ichi (educational psychologist) - Takeuchi Yoshio ( Orientalist, philosopher) - Toyotake Yamashirono Shōjō (puppeteer) - Bandō Mitsugorō (Kabuki actor)
- 1961: Kawabata Yasunari (writer) - Tomimoto Kenkichi (art ceramist) - Dōmoto Inshō (painter) - Fukuda Heihachirō (painter) - Mizushima Sanichirō (chemist) - Amano Teiyū (philosopher, educator) - Tanaka Yoshi (chemist) - Kotake Yashirō (Biochemist) ) - Ishihara Shinobu (medic) - Mifune Kyūzō (judoka)
- 1962: Umezawa Hamao (microbiologist) - Okumura Togyū (painter) - Kuwada Yoshinari (biologist) - Nakamura Gakuryō (painter) - Ishihara Ken (historian) - Shibata Yūji (chemist) - Takahashi Seiichirō (economist) - Tatsuno Yutaka (literary scholar) - Naitō Tachū (architect) - Kiyomoto Juhē (reciter)
- 1963: Kuno Yasu (physiologist) - Koga Issaku (communications engineer) - Kobayashi Hideo (writer, critic) - Katayama Nampū (painter) - Umehara Sueji (archaeologist) - Anodera Naosuke (medic) - Ichikawa Jukai III (Kabuki actor) - Nobutoki Kiyoshi (composer) - Hara Ryūzaburō (engineer) - Matsuda Gonroku (paint master)
- 1964: Kaya Seiji (physicist) - Osaragi Jirō (writer) - Yabuta Teijirō (chemist) - Yoshida Isoya (architect) - Wagatsuma Sakae (lawyer) - Hanayagi Shōtarō (onnagata) - Arishima Ikuma (painter) - Fujikage Seiju (dancer) - Takata Yasuma (economist, sociologist) - Yamaguchi Susumu (Buddhologist)
- 1965: Akahori Shirō (biochemist) - Koito Gentarō (painter) - Morohashi Tetsuji (linguist) - Yamaguchi Hōshun (painter) - Yamamoto Yūzō (playwright, politician) - Nogami Yaeko (actress) - Ichikawa Sadanji III. (Kabuki performers) - Arakawa Bunroku (engineer) - Honjō Eijirō (economic historian) - Majima Masaichi
- 1966: Ibuse Masuji (writer) - Nitta Isamu (chemist) - Tokuoka Shinsen (painter) - Higashiyama Chieko (actress) - Takaishi Shingorō (businessman) - Tsunetō Kyō (legal philosopher) - Hisamatsu Sen'ichi (literary scholar) - Horibo Shinkichi (educator ) - Matsumoto Shin'ichi (medic) - Yamazaki Kakutarō (paint master)
- 1967: Sakaguchi Kin'ichirō (chemist) - Hayashi Takeshi (painter) - Murano Tōgo (architect) - Yamagata Masao ( marine engineer ) - Kawatake Shigetoshi (theater scholar) - Takagi Yasaka (political scientist) - Torigai Risaburō (electrical engineer) - Nakada Mizuho ( Surgeon) - Niizeki Ryōzō (literary scholar) - Bundō Shunkai (monk, calligrapher)
- 1968: Kurokawa Toshio (physician) - Suzuki Masatsugu (civil engineer) - Hamada Shōji (ceramic art) - Ono Chikkyō (painter) - Sagara Morio (literary scholar) - Suzuki Suiken (writer) - Sono Masazō (mathematician) - Nakayama Ichirō - Fukuhara Rintarō ( Anglist, essayist) - Yamada Shōtarō (singer)
- 1969: Shishi Bunroku (writer) - Ochiai Eiji (pharmacologist) - Shōda Kenjirō (mathematician) - Higashiyama Kaii (painter) - Kiritake Monjūrō (puppeteer) - Kaneshige Kangurō (mechanical engineer) - Shima Hideo (engineer) - Miyazawa Toshiyoshi (lawyer) - Yamaga Seika (dyer) - Yoshikawa Kōjirō (literary scholar)
1970 to 1979
- 1970: Okinaka Shigeo (physicians) - Munakata Shiko (woodcutter) - Asō Isoji (literary critic) - Iwada Toshichi (artisans) - Okada yo (zoologist) - Koyama Keizo (painter) - Tobata Seiichi (Economic and agronomists) - Horiguchi Daigaku ( Poet, translator) - Yashiro Yukio (art historian) - Watanabe Yasushi (electrical engineer)
- 1971: Akagi Masao (agronomist) - Arakawa Toyozō (Art Pottery) - Yasui Takuma (economist) - Nakamura Kanzaburo XVII - Junzaburō Nishiwaki (writer) - Hattori Shiro (Linguist) - Hiratsuka Eikichi (explorer of the Silk) - Mizutani Yaeko I (Actress) - Morito Tatsuo (educator, sociologist) - Wadachi Kiyoo (seismologist)
- 1972: Uchida Yoshikazu (architect) - Ono Seiichirō (lawyer) - Oka Shikanosuke (painter) - Hayaishi Osamu (biochemist) - Imanishi Kinji (ecologist) - Tanaka Michitarō (philosopher) - Sakamoto Tarō (historian) - Kawakami Tetsutarō (writer) - Nakamura Utaemon VI (Kabuki performer) - Kusube Yaichi (art ceramist)
- 1973: Katsuki Yasuji (physiologist) - Kubo Ryōgo (physicist) - Setō Shōji (electrical engineer) - Taniguchi Yoshirō (architect) - Kajima Morinosuke (businessman, diplomat) - Kawaguchi Matsutarō (playwright) - Saitō Hideo (cellist, conductor) - Sawada Seikō (sculptor) - Kaionji Chōgorō (writer) - Nagai Tatsuo (writer)
- 1974: Ishizaka Kimishige (medic) - Leo Esaki (physicist) - Sugiyama Yasushi (painter) - Nagata Takeshi (geoscientist) - Hashimoto Meiji - Ishida Mosaku (archaeologist) - Sugimura Haruko (actress) - Takahashi Kamekichi (economic historian) - Takii Kōsaku ( Writer) - Yamauchi Tokuryū (philosopher)
- 1975: Setsuro Ebashi (physiologist) - Tasaki Hirosuke (painter) - Nakagawa Kazumasa (painter) - Hironaka Heisuke (mathematician) - Ōtsuka Hisao (economic historian) - Inoue Yachiyo - Saitō Takeshi (Anglist) - Funabashi Seiichi (writer) - Yokota Kisaburo ( Lawyer) - Yoshiki Masao ( Naval Engineer )
- 1976: Inoue Yasushi (writer) - Kimura Motō (geneticist) - Morishima Michio (economist) - Kaizuka Shigeki (historian) - Kiyomizu Rokubē - Kurosawa Akira (director) - Sakamura Tetsu (geneticist) - Serizawa Keisuke (dyer, designer) - Numachi Fukusaburō (mechanical engineer) - Matsumoto Shigeharu (journalist)
- 1977: Sakurada Ichirō (chemist) - Tamiya Hiroshi (microbiologist) - Nakamura Hajime (philosopher, Buddhologist) - Niwa Fumio (writer) - Yamamoto Kyūjin (painter) - Ōtaguro Motō (music critic) - Oka Yoshitake (political scientist) - Kotani Masao (physicist ) - Nakanishi Gotō (poet) - Nishikawa Yasushi (calligrapher)
- 1978: Ozaki Kazuo (writer) - Sugimura Takashi (biochemist) - Nambu Yōichirō (physicist) - Ogura Yuki (painter) - Kon Hidemi (writer) - Takei Takeshi (chemist) - Tsuji Naoshirō (linguist) - Tsuboi Seitarō (geologist) - Fukuzawa Ichirō (painter) - Matsumoto Hakuō I (Kabuki actor)
- 1979: Imai Isao (physicist) - Enchi Fumiko (writer) - Kuwabara Takeo (literary scholar) - Koiso Ryōhei (painter) - Takahashi Shinji (doctor) - Takayama Tatsuo (painter) - Tange Kenzō (architect) - Tsuji Kiyoaki (political scientist) - Fujima Kanso II - Mutō Kiyoshi (architect)
1980 to 1989
- 1980: Andō Seikū (calligrapher) - Shimizu Takashi (sculptor) - Suenaga Masao (archaeologist) - Tanaka Jirō (lawyer) - Takahashi Hidetoshi (physicist) - Takayanagi Kenjirō (electrical engineer) - Tsuda Kyōsuke (pharmacologist) - Nakamura Teijo (poet) - Nakamura Ganjirū II (Kabuki actor) - Yamaguchi Kayō (painter)
- 1981: Arisawa Hiromi (economist) - Yamamoto Kenkichi (literary scholar) - Ogisu Takanori (painter) - Okuda Gensō (painter) - Tanabe Hisao (musicologist) - Tezuka Tomio (literary scholar) - Natori Reiji (physiologist) - Morino Yonezō (chemist) - Yonekawa Fumiko (koto player, folk musician) - Fukui Kenichi (chemist)
- 1982: Ushijima Noriyuki (painter) - Entsuba Katsuzō (sculptor) - Okada Yoshio (biologist) - Kiyomoto Shizutayū (reciter) - Kawakami Masamitsu (electrical engineer) - Nakamura Mitsuo (literary critic) - Suzuki Takeo (lawyer) - Teshima Yūkei (calligrapher) - Nishitani Keiji (philosopher) - Hayashi Chūshirō (physicist)
- 1983: Uemura Shōkō (painter) - Uzawa Hirobumi (economist) - Egami Namio (archaeologist) - Kanatani Haruo (biologist) - Kusano Shinpei (poet) - Tonegawa Susumu (biologist) - Nakanoshima Kin'ichi (composer, koto player) - Nishizawa Jun'ichi (engineer) - Hibino Gohō (calligrapher) - Yamamoto Toyoichi (sculptor)
- 1984: Ikeda Yōson (painter) - Ishii Ryōsuke (legal historian) - Ichiko Teiji (literary scholar) - Uchida Jun'ichi (chemist) - Satō Mikio (mathematician) - Tada Tomio (immunologist, writer) - Tsuchiya Bunmei (literary scholar, poet) - Tominaga Naoki (sculptor) - Onoe Shōroku II (Kabuki actor) - Morishige Hisaya (comedian, actor)
- 1985: Inose Hiroshi (electrical engineer) - Uno Nobuo (Kabuki artist) - Ōsumi Ken'ichirō (lawyer) - Tamura Kōnosuke (painter) - Kanakura Enshō (philosopher, Buddhologist) - Kondō Kenzō (Nō master) - Takahashi Kenji (literary scholar ) - Takahara Shigeo (medic) - Nagakura Saburō (chemist) - Yoshii Junji (painter)
- 1986: Ikenouchi Tomojirō (music teacher) - Oda Minoru (astronomer) - Kataoka Tamako (painter) - Kawamori Yoshizō (literary scholar) - Komatsu Hitoshi (painter) - Suzuki Hiromu (mechanical engineer) - Takamitsu Kazuya (painter) - Dandō Shigemitsu (lawyer) - Hinuma Yorio (medic) - Yamamoto Tatsurō (historian)
- 1987: Hōjō Hideji (writer) - Inukai Takashi (literary scholar) - Iwasaki Shun'ichi (electrical engineer) - Ōkawa Kazushi (economist) - Kaneko Ōtei (calligrapher) - Takada Makoto (painter) - Tanikawa Tetsuzō (philosopher) - Dan Katsuma (biologist ) - Chōsa Yoshiyuki (engraver) - Nishizuka Yasutomi (medic) - Hasuda Shūgorō (caster)
- 1988: Aoyama San'u (calligrapher) - Inui Takao ( marine engineer ) - Endō Shūsaku (writer) - Oda Mikio (athlete) - Koshiba Masatoshi (physicist) - Satō Taisei (painter) - Suzuki Shintarō (painter) - Takeuchi Rizō (historian ) - Takehara Han (dancer) - Togashi Gaiichi (civil engineer) - Miyamoto Mataji (historian) - Yamamura Yūichi (medic) - Yuki Teiichi (Japanese cuisine)
- 1989: Asahina Takashi (conductor) - Ibuka Masaru (industrialist) - Iwahashi Eien (painter) - Shibaki Yoshiko (writer) - Saji Tadashi (lacquer master) - Sen Genshitsu (Chadō master) - Soda Norimune - Nishikawa Tetsuji (physicist) - Harada Kō (Political scientist) - Mitsuda Hisateru (agronomist) - Miyazaki Ichisada (historian) - Mori Hanae (fashion designer) - Morita Shigeru (painter)
1990 to 1999
- 1990: Ide Nobumichi (painter) - Chiyo Uno (writer) - Ōyama Yasuharu (Shogi player) - Okamoto Shunzo (engineering mechanics) - Tadamitsu Kishimoto (physicians) - Takemoto Koshijitayū (puppeteer) - Sekino Masaru (history of architecture) - Takahashi Setsuro ( Craftsman) - Hirata Yoshimasa (natural materials scientist) - Hirayama Teruo (philologist) - Maehata Hideko (swimmer) - Masuda Shirō (historian) - Mori Shigefumi (mathematician) - Yoshika Taibi (potter) - Watanabe Yoshio (photographer)
- 1991: Akino Fuku (painter) - Ashihara Yoshinobu (architect) - Azuma Tokuho (dancer) - Ishikawa Tadao (historian) - Itō Kiyonaga (painter) - Umesao Tadao (anthropologist) - Okamura Sōgo (electrical engineer) - Kagawa Aya (medical doctor) - Kamekura Yūsaku (graphic artist) - Kawakita Michiaki (art critic) - Kawashima Takeyoshi (lawyer) - Kinoshita Keisuke (director) - Shiba Ryōtarō (writer) - Numa Shōsaku (molecular biologist) - Hanafusa Hidesaburō (geneticist)
- 1992: Asakura Isokichi (ceramic art) - Imai Yūnoshin (metallurgist) - Umehara Takeshi (philosopher) - Kataoka Nizaemon (Kabuki actor) - Kawakami Tetsuharu (baseball player) - Sakata Eio (Go player) - Shibata Minao (composer) - Shimada Kinji ( Komparatist) - Tamura Kazuo (painter) - Tamura Saburō (chemist) - Nishioka Tsunekazu (shrine builder ) - Mukaibō Takashi (chemist) - Mukaiyama Teruaki (chemist) - Yamaguchi Seishi (poet) - Wakimura Yoshitarō (economist)
- 1993: Agawa Hiroyuki (writer) - Ashibe Nobuyoshi (lawyer) - Oda Toshitsugu (doctor) - Kawano Shigetō (economist) - Kikkawa Eiji (musicologist) - Konō Rokurō (linguist) - Shimura Fukumi (weaver / dyer) - Nakane Chie (anthropologist) ) - Nishijima Kazuhiko (physicist) - Tomiyama Seikin (folk musician, koto player) - Hirayama Ikuo (educator, painter) - Furuhashi Hironoshin (swimmer) - Horio Masao (chemical engineer) - Murakami Santō (calligrapher) - Yamada Isuzu (actress)
- 1994: Ichikawa Kon (director) - Itō Masami (lawyer) - Itō Masao (physiologist) - Inokuchi Hiroo (chemist) - Ueyama Shunpei (philosopher) - Kojima Nobuo (writer) - Sawada Toshio (agricultural engineer) - Takagi Noboru (electrical engineer) - Tsujimura Kōtarō (economist) - Onoe Baikō VII (Kabuki actor) - Migishi Setsuko (painter) - Yasukawa Kazuko (pianist) - Yokoyama Ryūichi (Mangaka) - Yoshimura Junzō (architect) - Yodoi Toshio (sculptor)
- 1995: Arata Yoshiaki (engineer) - Ōkubo Fukuko (artist) - Okada Tokindo (biologist) - Oho Fujio (lawyer) - Katō Tōichi (painter) - Kondō Jirō (aeronautical engineer) - Saikō Nobutsuna (literary scholar) - Saitō Kiyoshi (woodcut artist) - Satō Isao (lawyer) - Sugioka Kason (calligrapher) - Sugimoto Sonoko (writer) - Takatsuki Kiyoshi (medic) - Takahashi Manemon (botanist) - Nagayama Takeomi (businessman) - Honda Yasuji
- 1996: Ishimoto Yasuhiro (photographer) - Okuda Azuma (agronomist) - Kamijō Shinzan (calligrapher) - Kobata Atsushi (historian) - Komiya Ryūtarō (economist) - Kondō Yoshimi (poet) - Sakai Toshiyuki (engineer) - Tamura Gakuzō (microbiologist) - Nanbata Tatsuoki (painter) - Fujita Yoshio (astronomer) - Matsudaira Yoritsune (composer) - Moriya Tadashi (painter) - Yanagihara Yoshitatsu (sculptor) - Yamamoto Saburō (civil engineer) - Yoshida Hidekazu (music critic, essayist)
- 1997: Akimoto Shunichi (geophysicist) - Ōoka Makoto (poet) - Kayama Matazō (painter) - Kindaichi Haruhiko (linguist, philologist) - Saitō Makoto (political scientist) - Shibata Shōji (pharmacologist) - Shimizu Tsukasa (engineer) - Morishita Yōko (ballerina) ) - Shindō Kaneto (director) - Setouchi Jakuchō (writer, nun) - Tabata Shigejirō - Nomura Tatsuji - Yoshimura Yūki (actor) - Fujita Kyōhei (glass artist) - Honda Ken'ichi (chemist)
- 1998: Kobayashi Toan (calligrapher) - Saitō Shigebumi (electrical engineer) - Shinohara Miyohei (economist) - Shirakawa Shizuka (literary critic) - Sonoda Takahiro (educator, pianist) - Toyama Kazuyuki (businessman, music critic) - Toyoshima Kumao (virologist) - Noyori Ryōji (chemist) - Fukuōji Hōrin (painter) - Maeda Egaku (Buddhologist, monk) - Mizukami Tsutomu (writer) - Issey Miyake (fashion designer) - Mori Mitsuko (actress) - Mori Wataru (doctor) - Wakita Kazu (painter)
- 1999: Aoki Ryūzan (ceramic art) - Ōyama Chūsaku (painter) - Kumagai Nobuaki (engineer) - Konishi Jin'ichi (comparator) - Dan Ikuma (composer) - Tsuboi Kiyotari (archaeologist) - Nakanishi Kōji (chemist) - Ichimura Uzaemon XVII - Hinohara Shigeaki (doctor) - Hirano Ryūichi (lawyer) - Funakoshi Yasutake (sculptor) - Horikawa Kiyoshi (engineer) - Marius Berthus Jansen (Japanese scientist) - Miura Shumon (writer) - Yamada Yasuyuki (agricultural scientist)
2000 to 2009
- 2000: Ishii Yoneo (historian) - Yoshida Tamao (puppeteer) - Kawai Hayao (psychologist) - Shigeyama Sensaku (Kyōgen actor) - Shirakawa Hideki (chemist) - Tanaka Ikkō (graphic artist) - Tanabe Seiko (writer) - Tomizawa Junichi (pharmacologist) - Nomiyama Gyōji (painter) - Hatanaka Ryōsuke (baritone) - Hayami Akira (economist) - Honjo Tasuku (doctor) - Masumoto Tsuyoshi (physicist, materials scientist) - Matsuo Toshio (painter) - Yamane Yūzō (art historian) - Yokobori Takeo (mechanical engineering )
- 2001: Nakamura Jakuemon IV (actor) - Akiyama Ken (literary scholar) - Inoki Masamichi (political scientist) - Sadako Ogata (political scientist, diplomat) - Seiji Ozawa (conductor) - Kawatake Toshio (theater scholar) - Kishi Yoshito (chemist) - Kyōgoku Junichi ( Political scientist) - Kobayashi Makoto (physicist) - Nagata Shigekazu (molecular biologist) - Naruse Eizan (calligrapher) - Hieda Kazuho (painter) - Masukawa Toshihide (physicist) - Miyoshi Akira (composer) - Yasuoka Shōtarō (writer)
- 2002: Kōno Taeko (actress) - Ōhira Santō (calligrapher) - Odashima Yūshi (Anglist) - Gōkura Kazuko (painter) - Shionoya Yūichi (economist) - Shimada Hiroshi (dancer) - Tanaka Kōichi (chemist) - Tsunewaki Kōichirō (geneticist) - Totsuka Yōji (physicist) - Donald Keene - Tonomura Akira (physicist) - Kotsura Beichū III (storyteller) - Nakamura Shinya (sculptor) - Ōta Tomoko (geneticist) - Honma Nagayo (political scientist) - Yanagi Sōri (product designer)
- 2003: Andō Tadao (architect) - Iijima Sumio (physicist) - Itagaki Yūzō (cultural scientist) - Itō Kiyoshi (mathematician) - Ifukube Akira (composer) - Iwata Yasuo (philosopher) - Yonekawa Toshiko (koto player) - Endō Minoru (composer ) - Kondō Jun (physicist) - Suematsu Yasuharu (communications engineer) - Sugano Haruo (medical doctor) - Tanuma Takeyoshi (photographer) - Sakata Tōjūrō IV (Kabuki actor) - Bai Kōichi (lawyer) - Sono Ayako (writer)
- 2004: Akasaki Isamu (electrical engineer) - Arima Akito (physicist) - Itō Nobuo (architect, monument conservationist) - Inoue Hisashi (writer) - Ōhi Chōzaemon (potter) - Shiimada Shōzō (painter) - Shikai Yōichi (economist) - Takano Etsuko ( Cineastin) - Takeichi Masatoshi (biologist) - Nakanishi Susumu (comparator) - Ninagawa Yukio (director) - Hayami Yūjirō (economist) - Hiraiwa Yumie (playwright, actress) - Yanagita Mitsuhiro (molecular biologist) - Yamada Yōji (director)
- 2005: Uchida Mitsuko (pianist) - Kaya Kōji (chemist) - Takemoto Sumitayū (reciter, puppet theater) - Hanayagi Toshinami (dancer) - Suzuki Akinori (chemist) - Takashina Shūji (art historian) - Tatehata Kakuzō (sculptor) - Tanaka Ikuzō ( sculptor ) - Nagashima Shigeo (baseball player) - Fujita Daigorō (Nō master) - Masaki Tomoo (pharmacologist) - Mikazuki Akira (lawyer) - Mitani Taichirō (political scientist) - Mori Sumio (poet) - Wakita Haruko (historian)
- 2006: Itō Hidesato (physicist) - Takakura Ken (actor) - Kanemori Hiroo (seismologist) - Kuriyama Masayoshi (opera director) - Kurokawa Kishō (architect) - Shiba Yoshinobu (historian) - Takagi Seikaku (calligrapher) - Asakura Setsu (artist) - Nakanishi Shigetada - Nakamura Shikan VII (Kabuki actor) - Negishi Takashi (economist) - Maruya Saiichi (writer) - Matsubara Ken'ichi (molecular biologist) - Mori Ken'ichi (communications engineer) - Yamazaki Masakazu (playwright)
- 2007: Iwatsuki Kunio (botanist) - Ebisawa Bin (musicologist) - Okutani Hiroshi (painter) - Oda Shigeru (lawyer) - Karashima Noboru (historian) - Kawashima Yasunaru (medic) - Kunitake Toyoki (chemist) - Sakurai Hideki (chemist) - Shiono Nanami (writer) - Suzuki Akio (surgeon) - Suzuki Chikuhaku (painter) - Tanigawa Ken'ichi (cultural anthropologist) - Dōmoto Hisao (painter) - Nakadai Tatsuya (actor) - Hoshino Eiichi (lawyer)
- 2008: Asashima Makoto (biologist) - Isogai Akira (chemist) - Ichiyanagi Toshi (composer, pianist) - Okuda Sayume (artisan) - Kaneko Tōta (poet) - Sakaki Hiroyuki (electrical engineer) - Shimoda Kōichi (physicist) - Shimomura Osamu ( Biochemist) - Sumikawa Kiichi (sculptor) - Tominaga Ken'ichi (sociologist) - Nagao Makoto (communications engineer) - Nishida Tatsuo (linguist) - Nomura Manzō (Nō master) - Funamura Tōru (composer) - Maki Asami (ballerina, choreographer) - Nakamura Tomijūrō
- 2009: Akira Shizuo (immunologist) - Iwasawa Shigeo (painter) - Iwatani Tokiko (copywriter, translator) - Katayama Kurōemon IX. (NO Actor) - Kawada Junzo (anthropologist) - Kusama Yayoi (artist) - Kozai Yoshihide (astronomer) - Kojima repaper (Flamenco dancer) - Shiono Hiroshi (lawyer) - Sugiura Masahiro (molecular biologist) - Taniguchi Tadatsugu (biologist) - Taihō Kōki (Sumōringer) - Yoshida Minosuke (puppeteer) - Miyao Tomiko (writer) - Yamazaki Toshimitsu (physicist)
2010 to 2019
- 2010: Ichikawa Ennosuke III. (Kabuki actor) - Sadaharu Oh (baseball player and manager) - Kazushi Ōno (conductor) - Yasuo Tanaka (astronomer) - Nakanichi Junko (engineer) - Nakano Mitsutoshi (literary scholar) - Nakamura Minoru (lawyer, writer) - Fujishima Akira (chemist) - Furutani Sōin (calligrapher) - Hosoe Eikō (photographer, film director) - Matsuo Koya (lawyer) - Shigeru Mizuki (mangaka) - Shin'ya Yamanaka (medic) - Yoshinaga Sayuri (actress)
- 2011: Iokibe Makoto (political scientist, historian) - Imai Masayuki (potter) - Akira Endō (biochemist) - Ōtaki Hideji (actor) - Katagiri Yōichi (literary scholar) - Kuroiwa Tsuneyoshi - Kaga Otohiko (writer) - Shiba Sukeyasu (musician) - Sugano Takuo (electrical engineer) - Tamao Kōhei (chemist) - Hashimoto Kentarō (sculptor) - Hibino Kōhō (calligrapher) - Mōri Kazuko (politician) - Yamaguchi Masao (anthropologist) - Yokomichi Mario (Nō researcher, director)
- 2012: Asao Naohiro (historian) - Amari Shun'ichi (mathematician) - Anno Mitsumasa (illustrator) - Iimori Taijirō (conductor) - Ōmura Satoshi (biochemist) - Okano Shun'ichirō (football player) - Kaneko Hiroshi (lawyer) - Takenishi Hiroko (Writer) - Tsutsumi Seiji (businessman, author) - Nakaji Yūjin (painter) - Nishida Atsuhiro (astrophysicist) - Beppu Teruhiko (biochemist) - Matsumoto Kōshirō IX. (Kabuki actor) - Miyazaki Hayao (director) - Morokuma Keiji (chemist)
- 2013: Uemura Atsushi (painter - Nihonga ) - Okano Hirohiko (poet) - Kubota Jun (literary scholar) - Sakaki Yoshiyuki (molecular biologist) - Tsutsumi Tsuyoshi (cellist) - Nakai Hisao (translator) - Hirokawa Nobutaka (molecular biologist) - Maki Fumihiko (architect ) - Masuoka Fujio (electrical engineer) - Matsuzawa Tetsurō (animal psychologist) - Yanagita Toshio (biophysicist) - Yamagishi Toshio (social psychologist) - Yamase Shōin (musician, koto player) - Yoshikawa Tadao (historian) - Yoshimasu Gōzō (singer)
- 2014: Akiyama Kazuyoshi (conductor) - Amano Hiroshi (physicist) - Kawasaki Shinjō (Indologist, Buddhologist) - Kinutani Kōji (painter) - Kuroi Senji (writer) - Koike Kazuo (economist) - Saitō Osamu (economist) - Satō Katushiko (physicist , Astronomer) - Tanaka Kenji (doctor) - Chiba Tetsuya (mangaka) - Tokiwazu Eiju (musician) - Nakamura Shūji (physicist) - Higuchi Hisako (golfer) - Hōshō Kan (no-actor) - Yamakawa Tamio (chemist) - Yamamoto Akio (Chemist) - Yuasa Jōji (Composer)
- 2015: Ansai Yuichiro (computer) - Ōsumi Yoshinori (cell biologist) - Okazaki Tsuneko (molecular biologist) - Onoe Kikugorō VII. (Kabuki actor) - Kajita Takaaki (physicist) - Kawabuchi Saburō (soccer player) - Kuroyanagi Tetsuko (actress) - Suzuki Takeshi (Political Scientist) - Nishimura Susumu (Molecular Biologist) - Nosaka Keiko (Koto Spieleri ) - Nomura Mansaku (Kyōgen Player) - Nomoto Kan'ichi (Ethnologist) - Hashida Sugako (Author) - Hamakawa Yoshihiro (Physicist) - Mitani Goichi ( Lacquer Artist ) - Minagawa Hiroko (writer)
- 2016: Iwai Katsuhito (economist) - Okai Takashi (tanka poet) - Sugi Ryōtarō (actor, singer) - Tsumura Setsuko (writer) - Ozaki Yūhō (calligrapher) - Ono Takashi ( artistic gymnast ) - Komatsu Kazuhiko (cultural anthropologist) - Koyama Yasuko ( Calligrapher) - Shinozaki Kazuo (biologist) - Shirai Takashi (Southeast Asia researcher) - Tanaka Nobuaki (choir director) - Tsuji Nobuo (art historian) - Nishio Shōjirō (computer scientist) - Fukuyama Hidetoshi (physicist) - Furui Sadoki (sound engineer)
- 2017: Amenomiya Keiko (sculptor) - Takemoto Komanosuke (traditional Japanese music) - Yoshida Miyako (ballet dancer) - Kida Hiroshi (virologist) - Sakaguchi Shimon (immunologist) - Sugimoto Hiroshi (photographer) - Koshino Junko (design) - Suzumura Kōtarō (welfare economist ) - Takahashi Mutsuo (haiku, tanka poet) - Tōno Haruyuki (ancient historian) - Nakamura Kichiemon II (kabuki player) - Nakamiya Shū (medic, biochemist) - Miyake Yoshinobu (weightlifter) - Murai Shinji (chemist) - Muramatsler Michio (administrative science ) )
- 2018: Atōda Takashi (writer, calligrapher) - Ikebe Shin'ichirō (composer) - Ishike Keidō (calligrapher) - Itō Toyō (architect) - Ui Michio (pharmacologist) - Ueda Shizuteru (philosopher) - Egashira Kenjirō (lawyer) - Ōtsuki Bunzō (Nō player) - Kasaya Yukio (ski jumper) - Kataoka Nizaemon X. (Kabuki player) - Kitagawa Furamu (art director) - Shiokawa Tetsuya (novelist) - Shinkai Seiji (chemist) - Takagi Nobuko (writer) - Tokura Shun'ichi ( Musician) - Fukuhara Yoshiharu (corporate patron ) - Murata Yoshihiro (food culture) - Mogi Yūsaburō (food culture) - Mori Kazutoshi (cell biologist) - Yamamoto Hisashi (chemist)
- 2019: Ishii Motoko (light artist) - Inoki Takenori (labor economist ) - Uda Kiyoko ( haikuist ) - Ōbayashi Nobuhiko (screenwriter) - Kanade Takeo (computer scientist) - Kōzen Hiroshi (sinologist) - Kobayashi Yoahinori (linguist) - biologist Takao - ( Sasakawa Yōhei (chairman of the Nippon Foundation, for social merit) - Sasaki Takuji (geneticist) - Satō Tadao (film critic) - Tabuchi Toshio (Nihonga) - Hagio Moto (manga) - Baba Akiko (poet) - Bandō Tamasaburō V. (Kabuki actor) - Fujiwara Shin'ichirō (sponsor of disabled sports ) - Miyagi Nōhō (dance) - Miyamoto Shigeru (game developer) - Yanagisawa Masashi (doctor) - Yoshino Akira (engineer) - Watanabe Misa (cultural sponsorship)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reference for the German name: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit: Japanese contemporary literature: A manual. edition text + kritik, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88377-639-4 , p. 176.
- ↑ 文化 功 労 者 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 25, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 施行 令 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Implementing regulations (Japanese)
- ↑ 平 成 20 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
- ↑ 平 成 21 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
- ↑ 平 成 22 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
- ↑ 平 成 23 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
Web links
- MEXT - The System of the Order of Culture and Persons of Cultural Merit (English)
- 文化 功 労 者 金 法 (Japanese)