Rashomon

Rashomon
Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781726229739

Rashomon By Akutagawa Ryunosuke This was not only lust, as you might think. At that time if I'd had no other desire than lust, I'd surely not have minded knocking her down and running away. Then I wouldn't have stained my sword with his blood. But the moment I gazed at her face in the dark grove, I decided not to leave there without killing him

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141902876

Ryünosuke 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. ‘Rashömon’ 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.

Rashomon and Other Stories

Rashomon and Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 655894538X

"Rashomon and Other Stories" has had a profound impact on both Japanese and international literature. The stories "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" were famously adapted into the 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, which brought Akutagawa's work to a global audience and won numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Akutagawa's exploration of the human condition, his innovative narrative techniques, and his ability to capture the complexities of moral and existential dilemmas have cemented his place as one of Japan's greatest writers. His works continue to be studied and appreciated for their literary merit and their insights into the human psyche.

Mandarins

Mandarins
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Archipelago
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935744127

Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."

The Life of a Stupid Man

The Life of a Stupid Man
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 014139773X

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927). Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.

Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories

Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1462924816

A famous samurai murder mystery finally brought to life in graphic novel form! A sword-swinging samurai, a corpse-robbing crone and a falsely accused trans man stand at the center of these four iconic tales, once the inspiration for a classic film, now turned into stunning graphic novellas. The stories in this volume by Ryunosuke Akutagawa — the renowned "father of the Japanese short story" are captured by manga masters mkdeville and Philippe Nicloux in these four action-packed adaptations: Rashomon: A houseless servant pits morality against survival in a post-apocalyptic world where thievery and the desecration of the dead are necessary for survival In the Grove: Conflicting statements and competing narratives call into question the notion of objective truth in a searing tale of rape and revenge Otomi's Virginity: Pride, honor and dignity are at stake when a young servant is confronted by an unexpected aggressor at her employer's abandoned house The Martyr: A pious Jesuit with a dark secret faces excommunication and death in 16th-century Japan, when Christianity was introduced and then banned by order of the Shogun Stunning graphic adaptations by mkdeville and Philippe Nicloux turn these iconic tales into thrilling page-turners, following in the footsteps of the famous Kurosawa film.

3 Strange Tales

3 Strange Tales
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935548301

3 Strange Tales presents new translations of this classic Japanese author's most well-known stories: Rashomon; A Christian Death; the never-before-published-in-English story, Agni; and a bonus story, In a Grove.

In a Grove (竹林中)

In a Grove (竹林中)
Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011-10-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Hell Screen ("Jigoku Hen") and Other Stories

Hell Screen (
Author: 芥川龍之介
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1971
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

There can be no doubt that [Akutagawa] had more individuality than any other writer of his time and has left in Japanese literature a mass of artistic work, often grotesque and curious, that, while it undoubtedly angers the proletarian experimenters who now hold the stage and fight with lusty pens and a highly developed class consciousness against all that he stood for, will continue to live as long as men go on treasuring the fancies their fellows from time to time set down with care on paper.--Glen W. Shaw

Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case

Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case
Author: Victor Santos
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630088986

Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.