NMLP P-018052 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

A Personal Matter (個人的な体験 / Kojinteki na taiken)

Kenzaburō Ōe · Shinchōsha (Tokyo) · 1964

The true first is the Japanese hardcover issued by Shinchōsha in August 1964 (Shōwa 39) within the publisher's 純文学書き下ろし特別作品 (pure-literature commissioned special-work) series; it won the 11th Shinchōsha Literary Prize

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-018052 for "A Personal Matter (個人的な体験 / Kojinteki na taiken)" by Kenzaburō Ōe (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-018052, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).