{{short description|Japanese photography award}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} The {{nihongo|'''Higashikawa Prize'''|東川賞|Higashikawa-shõ}} has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan since 1985. The Overseas and Domestic Photographer prizes are of 500,000 yen and the New Photographer and Special prizes are of 300,000 yen.
The work of twenty years' winners of the Overseas Photographer Prize was exhibited in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2006.
{| class="wikitable"
|- ! No. ! Year ! Overseas <br />Photographer<br />Prize ! Domestic <br />Photographer<br />Prize ! New<br />Photographer<br />Prize ! Special<br />Prize |-
| 1 | 1985<ref name="successive">[http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/successive-prizewinners.pdf List of prizewinners, 1985–2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414210712/http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/successive-prizewinners.pdf |date=14 April 2015 }} {{in lang|ja}} Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref> | Joel Sternfeld | Issei Suda,<br />Keiichi Tahara | [none] | Yoshihiko Shiga
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| 2 | 1986<ref name="successive" /> | Lucien Clergue | Kishin Shinoyama | Takanobu Hayashi | Tetsuya Sekiguchi
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| 3 | 1987<ref name="successive" /> | Joel Meyerowitz | Ikkō Narahara | Michiko Kon | Kōji Kanbe <!-- Name appears on at least one book as "Koji Kambe" -->
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| 4 | 1988<ref name="successive" /> | Lewis Baltz | Shōji Ueda | Eiji Ina | Minoru Taketazu
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| 5 | 1989<ref name="successive" /> | Shi Shaohua | Yūkichi Watabe | Jun Tsukida | Masahide Satō
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| 6 | 1990<ref name="successive" /> | Graciela Iturbide | Osamu Murai | Tokihiro Satō | Kazumi Kurigami
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| 7 | 1991<ref name="successive" /> | Jan Saudek | Nobuyoshi Araki | Takako Minoda | Gen'ichirō Kakegawa
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| 8 | 1992<ref name="successive" /> | Olivo Barbieri | Jōji Hashiguchi | Seiichi Furuya | Masahisa Fukase
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| 9 | 1993<ref name="successive" /> | William Yang | Yutaka Takanashi | Kō Inose <!-- Name appears on at least one book as "Inose Kou" --> | Takeo Shimizu
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| 10 | 1994<ref name="successive" /> | Michel Campeau | Taku Aramasa | Mitsuhiko Imamori | Hiromi Nagakura
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| 11 | 1995<ref name="successive" /> | Kim Soo-Nam | Hiroshi Sugimoto | Masato Seto | Tsuneo Hayashida
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| 12 | 1996<ref name="successive" /> | Gundula Schulze<br /> el Dowy | Kikuji Kawada | Taiji Matsue | Ikuo Nakamura
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| 13 | 1997<ref name="successive" /> | Calum Colvin | Kazuyoshi Machino | Osamu Kanemura | Ryōichi Satō
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| 14 | 1998<ref name="successive" /> | Anthony Hernandez | Hiroshi Suga | Takeshi Hosokawa | Shōjun Tsuyama
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| 15 | 1999<ref name="successive" /> | Claudio Edinger | Miyako Ishiuchi | Miwa Yanagi | Kunihiko Takada
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| 16 | 2000<ref name="successive" /> | Chema Madoz | Naoya Hatakeyama | Keiko Nomura | Masakatsu Kubota
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| 17 | 2001<ref name="successive" /> | Andrejs Grants | Eikoh Hosoe | Yuki Onodera | Kazuemon Hidano
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| 18 | 2002<ref name="successive" /> | Edwin Zwakman | Yasumasa Morimura | Kōji Onaka | Kensuke Kazama
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| 19 | 2003<ref name="successive" /> | Guy Tillim | Ryōichi Saitō | Kimio Itozaki | Ruiko Yoshida
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| 20 | 2004<ref name="successive" /> | Antoine D'Agata | Yukio Nakagawa | Akiko Tobu | Eiichi Kurasawa
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| 21 | 2005<ref name="successive" /> | Kim Nyung-man | Hotarō Koyama | Kenji Kohiyama | Ryoko Suzuki
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| 22 | 2006<ref name="successive" /><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-02-03|title=開催年: 22nd – 第22回（2006年）|url=https://photo-town.jp/en/collection/holding_year/22nd-2006|website=Higashikawa International Photo Festival}}</ref> | Ketaki Seth | Risaku Suzuki | Emi Anrakuji | Osamu Wataya
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| 23 | 2007<ref name="successive" /> | Manit Sriwanichpoom | Kunié Sugiura | Masako Imaoka | Hiroyuki Yamada
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| 24 | 2008<ref name="successive" /> | Klaus Mitteldorf | Asako Narahashi | Tomoko Sawada | Yūji Obata
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| 25 | 2009<ref name="successive" /><ref>[http://town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/phototown/prize/2009.htm 2009 awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816130333/http://town.higashikawa.hokkaido.jp/phototown/prize/2009.htm |date=16 August 2010 }} {{in lang|ja}} Accessed 29 August 2010.</ref> | Anne Ferran | Toshio Shibata | Naoki Ishikawa | Keiji Tsuyuguchi
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|- ! No. ! Year ! Overseas <br />Photographer<br />Award ! Domestic <br />Photographer<br />Award ! New<br />Photographer<br />Award ! Special<br />Award ! Hidano Kazuemon<br />Award |-
| 26 | 2010<ref>[http://fotofes09.exblog.jp/13317529/ 第26回写真の町東川賞受賞者発表]. Higashikawa Photo Festival. {{in lang|ja}} Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref> | Chin-pao Chen<!--陳敬寶--> | Keizō Kitajima | Osamu James Nakagawa | Yoshihiro Hagiwara | Ichirō Kojima<ref>[http://www.aomori-museum.jp/ja/blog/954.html 小島一郎が東川賞受賞!!] Aomori Museum of Art. {{in lang|ja}} 20 May 2010. Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref> |-
| 27 | 2011<ref>[http://fotofes09.exblog.jp/16062386/ 第27回東川賞受賞作家展]. Higashikawa Photo Festival. {{in lang|ja}} Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref> | Peter Dressler | Yuki Onodera | Ken Kitano | Minoru Okuda | Shunji Dodo |-
| 28 | 2012<ref>[http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/press-release2012-en.pdf Press release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171157/http://photo-town.jp/en/pdf/press-release2012-en.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }} (PDF) {{in lang|en}} Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120716171404/http://photo-town.jp/en/higashikawa-prize/2012examination-comment/index.html Commentary] {{in lang|en}} Accessed 19 May 2012.</ref> | Arif Aşçı | Taiji Matsue | Lieko Shiga | Makiko Ue | Yoshikazu Minami |-
| 29 | 2013<ref>"[http://photo-town.jp/en/2013higashikawa-prize-exhibition/index.html Exhibition of the 29th Higashikawa Award Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609192744/http://photo-town.jp/en/2013higashikawa-prize-exhibition/index.html |date=2013-06-09 }}" {{in lang|en}} Accessed 28 May 2013.</ref> | Minstrel Kuik Ching Chieh | Rinko Kawauchi | Ari Hatsuzawa | Takehiko Nakafuji | Minoru Yamada |-
| 30 | 2014 | Jorma Puranen | Rika Noguči | Gentaró Išizuka | Kódži Sakai | Tazuko Masujama |-
| 31 | 2015 | Anne Noble | Tokihiro Satō | Maiko Haruki | Kazutoši Jošimura | Kikudžiró Fukušima |-
| 32 | 2016 | Óscar Muñoz | Taiši Hirokawa | Jóko Ikeda | Michael Kenna | Jošimi Ikemoto |-
| 33 | 2017 | Anna Orłowska | Seiiči Motohaši | Sakiko Nomura | Acuši Okada | Joširó Koseki |-
| 34 | 2018 | Marian Penner Bancroft | Tokuko Ušioda | Erika Jošino | Eidži Óhaši | Keisó Tomioka |-
| 35 | 2019 | Rosemary Laing | Lieko Shiga | Mari Katayama | Atsushi Okuyama | Junichi Ota |-
| 36 | 2020 | Gregory Maiofis | Yuri Nagashima | Sayaka Ueara | Kentaro Takahashi | Hiroh Kikai |- |}
==Notes== <references />
==External links== *{{Official website|https://photo-town.jp}} * Hiraki Osamu. "[http://webzine.iphos.co.kr/webzine/news/news_read.asp?lrg_no=0&ins_no=638&menu=12 The 21st Higashikawa Prize]" (2007) *{{in lang|ja}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20061218235825/http://www.syabi.com/details/higashikawa.html 2006 exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]. Archived by the Wayback Machine in 2006.
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