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    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) wrote over a hundred short stories and was considered a major author when he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five (just after finishing Kappa): one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards is named after him. Two of the stories from his collection Rashomon formed the basis of the award-winning film of the same title by Akira Kurosawa.

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) wrote over a hundred short stories and was considered a major author when he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five (just after finishing Kappa): one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards is named after him. Two of the stories from his collection Rashomon formed the basis of the award-winning film of the same title by Akira Kurosawa.

    Books by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

    • Rashomon and Other Stories

      Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Takashi Kojima, M. Kuwata, Howard Hibbett

      Paperback, 2000

      This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different...

    • The Beautiful and the Grotesque

      Ryunosuke Akutagawa

      Paperback, 2010

      From one of the masters of the short story comes an unforgettable collection of haunting and strange tales.

    • Kappa

      Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell

      Paperback, 2023

      Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic and witty

    • Kappa

      Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell

      E Book

      Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic and witty

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