SELECTED AWARDS

1977	Awarded the 1976 Mainichi Design Award, Japan. (The first time the prize was awarded for fashion design.) Presents A Piece of Cloth – Issey Miyake in Museum, in honor of the award at the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
1990	Awarded the 1st Hiroshima Art Prize by the city of Hiroshima. Presented TEN SEN MEN, an exhibition in conjunction with and in honor of the Prize at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
1991	Decorated as a Commandeur des Arts et Lettres from France.
1992	Awarded the 1991 Asahi Prize, Japan.
1993	Decorated as a Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur from France. Presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.
1998	Selected as a Person of Cultural Merit from Japan.
1999	Received the Titre de Docteur “Honoris Causa” from the University of Lyon.
2000	Awarded the Japan Art Prize by Shincho Bungei Shinkou-kai, Japan. Awarded the Georg Jensen Award (the 1st) by the Tuborg Foundation, Denmark.
2001	Chosen as one of the “World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius” at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada. Presented by the Governor, Adrienne Clarkson
2004	Awarded the 11th Wexner Prize at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University.
2005	Awarded the 17th Praemium Imperiale Sculpture Prize from the Japan Art Association.
2006	Awarded the 22nd Kyoto Prize, in the Arts and Philosophy category.
2010	Received the Order of Culture for the 22nd year of Heisei, bestowed upon him by the Emperor at the Imperial Palace on November 3rd, 2010. Appointed as an Honorary Citizen of the City of Hiroshima in September, and of the Prefecture of Hiroshima in December.