This author created a protagonist who simply refers to himself as "boku" sees a ghost wearing a raincoat and slowly descends to insanity in his novel Gears, or Cogwheels. The fox turns into a messenger for Toshihito in another of this author's works, in which an ordinary samurai with a red nose, Goi, obsesses over the titular food. This author of "
This author created a protagonist who simply refers to himself as "boku" sees a ghost wearing a raincoat and slowly descends to insanity in his novel Gears, or Cogwheels. The fox turns into a messenger for Toshihito in another of this author's works, in which an ordinary samurai with a red nose, Goi, obsesses over the titular food. This author of "Yam Gruel" also wrote about a patient in the insane asylum, who talks about a water imp which refuses to be born, and he wrote about a monk dips a certain body part in hot water and has his disciples step on it in "Kappa" and "The Nose," respectively. This author of "In a Grove" may be best remembered for a work that was the basis for a Kurosawa film of the same name. For 10 points, name this author, the namesake of Japan's highest literary prize and the author of the short story "Rashomon"?
This author created a protagonist who simply refers to himself as "boku" sees a ghost wearing a raincoat and slowly descends to insanity in his novel Gears, or Cogwheels.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke