Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (ry
nô`skĕ' äk
`tä`gä`wä), pseud. of Chōkōdō Shujin (chōkō`dō sh`jĭn), 1892–1927, Japanese author. One of Japan's finest short-story writers, he derived many of his tales from historical Japanese sources, but told them with psychological insights in an individualistic style. "Rashomon"(1915) and "In a Grove" (1921) were made into the classic 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa, Akira (äkē`rä k
..... Click the link for more information. . His later writings, largely autobiographical fiction, were not successful, and this lack of popular response may have contributed to his suicide.
nô`skĕ' äk`tä`gä`wä), pseud. of Chōkōdō Shujin (chōkō`dō sh`jĭn), 1892–1927, Japanese author. One of Japan's finest short-story writers, he derived many of his tales from historical Japanese sources, but told them with psychological insights in an individualistic style. "Rashomon"(1915) and "In a Grove" (1921) were made into the classic 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa, Akira (äkē`rä k..... Click the link for more information. . His later writings, largely autobiographical fiction, were not successful, and this lack of popular response may have contributed to his suicide.
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