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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō...
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  • Yasushi Akutagawa (芥川 也寸志, 1925–1989), Japanese composer and conductor, son of Akutagawa Ryunosuke Madokoro Akutagawa Saori (芥川 (間所) 紗織, Akutagawa (Madokoro)...
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    Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志, Akutagawa Hiroshi, 30 March 1920 – 28 October 1981) was a Japanese stage and film actor and director. In his 30 years spanning...
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    The Akutagawa Prize (芥川龍之介賞, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Shō) is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention...
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    Yasushi Akutagawa (芥川 也寸志, Akutagawa Yasushi, July 12, 1925 – January 31, 1989) was a Japanese composer and conductor. His father was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Akutagawa...
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    a domestic rabbit owned by Hironori Akutagawa. Oolong became an Internet phenomenon through his owner, Akutagawa, uploading images of the rabbit with...
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  • Madokoro Akutagawa Saori (芥川 (間所) 紗織, Akutagawa (Madokoro) Saori, 1924–31 January 1966) was a Japanese painter whose works were often associated with primitivism...
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    Union (IAU) in on September 25, 2015. Akutagawa is named for the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Much of Akutagawa is surrounded by low-reflectance material...
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    magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the...
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  • Rashōmon (short story) (category Short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    Rashōmon (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku...
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  • David Akutagawa (1937–2008) was a Japanese Canadian martial artist active during the late 20th century. Born in 1937, Akutagawa first came to Canada after...
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  • rival Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Igarashi showed the characters in silhouette in front of a red background. His relationship with Akutagawa was compared more...
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  • his wing, which is the primary reason Akutagawa resents Atsushi, as Dazai had abused and later abandoned Akutagawa as his "mentor" when he left the Port...
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  • story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on a thirteenth-century Japanese tale from the Uji Shūi Monogatari. "The Nose" was Akutagawa's second short story,...
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  • In a Grove (category Short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    translated as In a Bamboo Grove, is a Japanese short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa first published in 1922. It was ranked as one of the "10 best Asian novels...
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  • Convenience Store Woman (category Akutagawa Prize-winning works)
    convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. The novel won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. Aside from writing, Murata worked at a convenience store...
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  • The Spider's Thread (category Short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    Spider's Thread (蜘蛛の糸, Kumo no Ito) is a 1918 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first published in the children's magazine Akai Tori. Shakyamuni is meandering...
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    are considered modern-day classics. His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. While Dazai continues to be...
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  • the Japanese dojo to challenge Akutagawa, who honorably accepts. Chen defeats Akutagawa easily and concludes that Akutagawa was not capable of defeating...
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    Hell Screen (category Short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    (地獄変, Jigokuhen) is a short story written by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was a reworking of Uji Shūi Monogatari and originally published in...
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  • request and visits a university research facility. There, he meets Koyori Akutagawa, a lone girl asleep on a bed. As though being led by something, Tazuna...
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  • with Supernatural Abilities. Atsushi becomes the target of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, who is a member of the criminal organization run by Ōgai Mori known as...
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    Kappa (novella) (category Novels by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    Hepburn: Kappa) is a 1927 novella written by the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The story is narrated by a psychiatric patient who claims to have travelled...
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  • Chichi to Ran (category Akutagawa Prize-winning works)
    published by Bungeishunjū in February 2008. It was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize. It is part of a "loosely connected trilogy," including Heaven and...
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  • or Rajōmon may also refer to: "Rashōmon" (short story), by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 1915 Rashomon (album), by Show Luo, 2010 Rashōmon, a 1993 album by Ningen...
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  • a watch and one million yen. Kikuchi founded the Naoki Prize with the Akutagawa Prize, which targets a new or rising author of literary fiction. The two...
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    Rie Qudan (category Akutagawa Prize winners)
    Saitama, Japan) is a Japanese novelist. In 2024, Qudan won the 170th Akutagawa Prize for her novel Tōkyō-to Dōjō Tō ("Tokyo Sympathy Tower"). She stated...
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  • productions, all ultimately derived from works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's two short stories "Rashomon" (1915), also known as "The Rashomon...
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    monkey Sun Wukong in the Chinese story Journey to the West. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's 1927 novella Kappa centers on a man who got lost and ended up in the...
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    Rashomon (category Films based on works by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story being based on "Rashōmon", another short story by Akutagawa. Every element...
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