Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (Translator) and he is authore of

and he is authore of more than eighty-five books in English

And here's what I'm thinking: I don't want to be here

the scent of pine and mist

because I am poor

including the superlative story The Witness for the Prosecution…Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation…A dog-shaped gunpowder mark

Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jay Rubin (Translator) and he is authore ofThese purple sparks he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his handsAkutagawa (1892 1927) was one of Japan's foremost stylists a modernist master whose stories are marked by original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. Rashmon and In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is inverted, while tales such as the Nose and Loyalty paint a richly imaginative picture of medieval Japan