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羅生門

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Published1999
Words256
LanguageJapanese
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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.

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