Rashomon
Rashomon

Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-27

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781726229739

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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

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0141902876

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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

Published: 2024-08-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 655894538X

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"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.

The Life of a Stupid Man
The Life of a Stupid Man

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 014139773X

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'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.

Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case
Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case

Author: Victor Santos

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1630088986

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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.

Mandarins
Mandarins

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1935744127

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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."

3 Strange Tales
3 Strange Tales

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1935548301

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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.

Rashomon Gate
Rashomon Gate

Author: Ingrid J. Parker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-07-31

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780312287986

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Award-winning writer Parker brings ancient Japan to life in a tale of blackmail and murder among high-ranking nobles. 10 illustrations.

The Ogre of Rashomon
The Ogre of Rashomon

Author: Yei Theodora Ozaki

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1619400952

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Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The warrior's sword and the village heroes are no match for the ogres and goblins that gnash their teeth and wreck havoc in early 20th century Japan.