List of recipients
# 1982 #* The Uralic Society of Japan: for their contributions in their journal ''Uralica'' vol. 5 #* Research Group for Historical Japanese Lexicology (Kokugo goishi kenkyūkai): For contributions in their publication ''Studies in Historical Japanese Lexicology'' (Kokugo goishi no kenkyū) Nos. 2 and 3. # 1983 #* Hōbōgirin Research Institute (Hōbōgirin Kenkyūjo): For their contribution in ''Hōbōgirin'', an encyclopedia of Buddhism. # 1984 #* Harumichi Ishizuka: ''Zushoryō Manuscripts, Nihon Syoki: Research Part'' (Zushoryōbon Nihon Shoki Kenkyūhen) #* Junichi Endō: ''Critical Study on Fables of Aesop'' I, II (''Isopo Monogatari'' no genten teki kenkyū, Sēhen, Zokuhen) # 1985 #* Yukihiro Yamaguchi: Comprehensive study of a dialect in Arai, Shizuoka, Japan #* Yoshiki Yamaguchi: ''On Establishment of Old Japanese Syntax and Morphology'' (Kodai nihongo bunpō no seiritsu no kenkyū) # 1986 #* Akira Minegishi: ''Linguistic Study of Records of Heian Period'' (Heian jidai kokiroku no kokugogaku teki kenkyū) # 1987 #* Yorio Ōtaka: ''Marie de France : Oeuvres complètes'' #* Kazuo Takeuchi: ''A Turkish-Japanese Dictionary'' (Torukogo jiten) #* Studies in Japanese of Kamakura era (Kamakura jidaigo kenkyū): ''Studies in Language of Kamakura'' Vol. 1-10 # 1988 #* Konshi Fukuda: ''Dictionary of Literary Manchu'' (Manshūgo bungo jiten) # 1989 #* Haruo Aoki: For a transliteration and a translation of Nez Perce folklore # 1990 #* Dialectological Circle of Japan (Nihon hōgen kenkyūkai): ''The course of Study of Japanese Dialects: Festschrift for the centenary of a birth of Misao Tōjō''. Study part, bibliography part. (Nihon hōgen kenkyū no ayumi: Tōjō Misao sensē sētan 100 shūnen kinen) # 1991 #* Kazue Akinaga: ''Studies on Glossed Texts in Kokin Wakashū'' (Kikon-wakashū sēten bon no kenkyū) #* Kazuhiko Yoshida: ''The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in ''-ri # 1992 #* Yoshio Mase: ''History of Nagano Prefecture'', "Dialect" Part (Nagano kenshi hōgenhen) # 1993 #* Masayoshi Matsuda, Kanichi Itoi, Kōichirō Hidaka: ''Changes in Environment of Dialect Use, 1955 and 1985'' (Hōgen sēkatsu 30 nen no henyō) # 1994 #* Motoki Nakajima: ''Modern Kantonese Dictionary'' (Gendai kantongo jiten) # 1995 #* Kenji Sakai: ''A Variorum Edition of'' Kōyō Gunkan (Kōyō gunkan taisē) #* Tsuguhito Takeuchi: ''Old Tibetan Contracts from Central Asia'' # 1996 #* Kenjirō Soeda: ''Issues on History of Japanese Accent'' (Nihongo akusento shi no sho mondai) # 1997 #* (no prize awarded) # 1998 #* Akihiko Yonekawa: ''Japanese-Japanese Sign Language Dictionary'' (Nihongo-Shuwa Jiten) #* Masato Hachiya: ''Word Formational Studies of Japanese Reduplicated Words'' (Kokugo chōfuku go no go kōsēron teki kenkyū) #* Fuminori Sakono: ''A Philological Study of Japanese Dialect'' (Bunken hōgen shi kenkyū) # 1999 #* Katsuaki Numoto: ''Historical Studies on Japanese Hanzi Reading: Its Structure and Written Forms'' (Nihon kanji on no rekishi teki kenkyū: taikē to hyōki wo megutte) #* Kiyoshi Matsuda: ''Philological Study on Western Learning in Japan'' (Yōgaku no shoshi teki kenkyū) # 2000 #* Yasuko Yamaguchi: ''Stylistic Study of'' Konjaku Monogatarishū'': Written Narrative'' (Konjaku monogatarishū no bunshō kenkyū: kakitomerareta "monogatari") # 2001 #* (no prize awarded) # 2002 #* Toshiaki Muroyama: ''Meaning and'' Yoko ''Society Structuring: View from Lexicons of Words of Tendency in Dialects'' (''Yoko'' shakai no kōzō to imi: hōgen sēkō goi ni miru) #* Chigusa Kobayashi: ''Studies of Japanese Expressions in the Middle Ages Used in the Shōmono, Kyōgen, and Christian Writings'' (Chūsei bunken no hyōgenron teki kenkyū) # 2003 #* Shigehiro Katō: ''A Pragmatic Study of Modification Structure in Japanese'' (Nihongo shūshoku kōzō no goyōron teki kenkyū) # 2004 #* Takashi Kobayashi: ''Methods of Dialectological Studies in the History of Japanese Language'' (Hōgengaku teki nihongo shi no hōhō) # 2005 #* Onore Watanabe: ''A Morphological Description of Sliammon, Mainland Comox Salish with a Sketch of Syntax'' #* Yōko Yumoto: ''Meaning and Syntax of Complex Verb and Derivative Verb'' (Fukugō dōshi, hasē dōshi no imi to tōgo) # 2006 #* Shingo Yamamoto: ''A Stylistic Study of Hyōbyaku and Gammon of Heian and Kamakura Eras'' (Heian, Kamakura jidai ni okeru hyōbyaku, gwanmon no buntai no kenkyū) #* Satoshi Kinsui: ''A History of Existential Expressions in Japanese'' (Nihongo sonzai hyōgen no rekishi) # 2007 #* (no prize awarded) # 2008 #* (no prize awarded) # 2009 #* Isamu Sasaki: ''Studies in the Kan'on of the Heian and Kamakura Eras'' (Heian-Kamakura-jidai ni okeru Nihon-kan'on no Kenkyū, kenkyūhen, shiryōhen) # 2010 #* (no prize awarded) # 2011 #* Kazuaki Uwano: ''Studies in the Early ModernExternal links