Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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Gender	Male
Death	97 years ago
Date of birth	March 1,1892
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Date of died	July 24,1927
Died	Kita City
	Tokyo
	Japan
Genres	Short Stories
Short stories	Rashōmon
	The Spider's Thread
	In a Grove
	The Nose
	Hell Screen
Height	172 (cm)
Job	Novelist
	Author
Movies/Shows	The Nose
	Misty
	The Christ of Nanjing
	Iron Maze
	Portrait of Hell
	The Outrage
	Rashomon
	Tajomaru: Avenging Blade
Siblings	Hisa Nishikawa
Born	Kyobashi-ku
	Tokyo
Spouse	Fumi Akutagawa
Children	Yasushi Akutagawa
	Hiroshi Akutagawa
	Takashi Akutagawa
Influences	Natsume Sōseki
	Naoya Shiga
	Charles Baudelaire
Grandchildren	Takatoshi Akutagawa
	Mamiko Akutagawa
	Teruko Akutagawa
Date of Reg.	2019-02-16 21:29:39
Date of Upd.	2023-09-25 00:34:22
ID	426600

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Hell Screen
In a Grove
The Life of a Stupid Man
Mandarins
The Handkerchief
Yabu No Naka
Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale
Mikan
Autumn Mountain
Hell Screen Jigoku Hen and Other Stories
El Hilo de la Arana \/ The Spider's Thread
Inu to Fue: The Dogs and the Flute
Rashomon Y Otros Cuentos
Rashomon and Other Stories with Furigana: (In a Grove, Nose, Spider's Thread, Hell Screen, Autumn Mountain)
The God Agni
Christ of Nanjing
Hell Screen ; Cogwheels ; A Fool's Life
Short Stories by Akutagawa
Luck
Rashōmon
The Spider's Thread
The Nose
Kappa

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Life story

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, art name Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Japanese writer 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. He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.