Description
This is a Boundary Bay Classics edition of thirteen short stories by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, the writer widely regarded as the father of the modern Japanese short story. The collection includes "Rashōmon," the tale that inspired Akira Kurosawa's celebrated 1950 film, alongside twelve further stories drawing on classical Japanese and Chinese sources — court tales, Buddhist parables, and historical anecdote — reworked by Akutagawa with a modern, often unsettling psychological edge. Written between 1915 and 1920, these stories established Akutagawa as one of the defining voices of early twentieth-century Japanese literature.
