Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists
- a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly
original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashoemon' and
'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict
a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as
'The Nose', 'O-Gin' and 'Loyalty' paint a rich and imaginative
picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests,
vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as 'Death Register',
'The Life of a Stupid Man' and 'Spinning Gears', Akutagawa drew
from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense
melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving
impressionistic stories.
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