Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
芥川 龍之介
b. Ryūnosuke Niihara (新原 龍之介)
east asia
modern japan
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.— Wikipedia
Short Works (2)
“Rashōmon” [“羅生門”].Short Story.· 1915.
"Rashōmon (羅生門)" is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.
“In a Grove” [“藪の中”].Short Story.· 1922.
In a Grove , also translated as In a Bamboo Grove, is a Japanese short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa first published in 1922. It was ranked as one of the "10 best Asian novels of all time" by The Telegraph in 2014. In a Grove has been adapted several times, most notably by Akira Kurosawa for his award-winning 1950 film Rashōmon.