 In 1960, he was awarded the Naoki Prize (1st half) for "Confusion" published in the June issue of " All Yomimono ".Hasegawa was delighted like me, and Shotaro was also handed a prize by Jiro Daibutsu , a favorite reader since his youth .Within a few years after receiving the award, he wrote screenplays for "Shikamizu Kazuki" and "Kaga Uproar", "The Man in the North Sea" ("All Readings", October 60), "The Woman of the Demon Lord" ("Weekly Mass" 11 July 7 ), "The Last Journey to Uden" ("Shinbunsho Shincho", January 1986), "Color" ("All Readings", August of the same year), "Fire Extinguisher" ("Shinkiso Novell") 62, January), "human sword Hanjiro" ( "Asahi Performing arts" the same year October 28 issue - 64 years January 26 issue), "pock MataJuro" ( "reasoning stream" 63, January) , "Samurai's Nest" ("Bungei Asahi", June of the same year), "Bakumatsu Shinsengumi" ("Earth" January-March, 1964), "Bakumatsu Yukitai" ("Weekly Yomiuri", same year 8) A series of early masterpiece novels were published one after another, including the March 4 issue- December 29 issue, of which "Color" was made into a movie under the title of "Ishin no Bonfire" ( 1961 ).