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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

    Japanese writer (–)

    The native form of this anställda name fryst vatten Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March – 24 July ), art nameChōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人),[2] was a Japanesewriter 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.[3] He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.[4]

    Early life

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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born in Irifune, Kyōbashi, Tokyo City (present-day Akashi, Chūō, Tokyo), the eldest son of businessman Toshizō Niihara and his wife Fuku. His family owned a milk production business.[5] His mother experienced mental illness shortly after his birth, so he was adopted and raised bygd his maternal uncle, Michiaki Akutagawa, from whom he received the A

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    A set photograph of The second from the left is Ryunosuke Akutagawa. At the far left is Kan Kikuchi.

    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介 Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, March 1, - July 24, ) was a prolific Japanese writer and poet, noted for his stylistic virtuosity, and is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story." Akutagawa wrote no full-length novels, focusing instead on the short story as his main medium of expression. During his short life, he wrote over short stories, including The Nose,The Spider's Thread,The Hell Screen, Autumn,The Ball,In a Grove, and Kappa.

    Akutagawa was known for taking trivial objects or events and enlarging on their significance to create a moral lesson or a comment on humanity. The Akutagawa Prize, established in by Kikuchi Kan in memory of Akutagawa, is Japan’s most prestigious literary award. The winner receives a pocket watch and a cash award of one million yen (about US $10,). Akira Kurosawa directed the film Rashōmon ()

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    JAPAN'S EDGAR ALLAN POE

    If you like Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, you'll probably also enjoy those of Akutagawa Ryunosuke.  As many of us consider Poe () our greatest short story writer, in Japan many consider Akutagawa () theirs.  And he has a remarkable number of other things in common with Poe.

    In spite of what might first appear to be polar differences, even their lives were similar.  Poe was born in Boston on January 19, , and died in Baltimore, on October 7, , so lived only forty years--a short and troubled life.  His parents were traveling actors, but both died before Poe was three.  He was then adopted by the John Allans, who lived in England through his grade-school years.  But in his teens he became alienated from his adoptive father, and was finally disinherited by him.

    It also seemed that, not only his mother and foster mother, but all the women closest to Poe died lingering deaths of tuberculosis.  When his young wif

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