Award Ango Award

Kikuchi Kan Prize (1962)

The Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (Japanese Government ∙ 1993)

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (2003)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1982)

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, Third Class (1975)

Order of Culture (2008)

Asahi Prize (1997)

Yomiuri Literary Prize (1985)