Yams!"
His story "A Woman's Body" is a praise of femininity from the eyes of a man transformed into a flea; his "The Badger" discusses badgers turning into humans. Shortly after his first publication in New Thought, he wrote "Hell Screen" about a painter who, in attempt to fully capture hell, gets his patron to burn a carriage with his daughter inside. Another of his stories features a man gazing over a feast and joyously shouting "Yams! Yams! Yams!" His last important work, "Kappa", concerns a stagnant race of aquatic beings and was finished in February 1927, months before death by poison and the subsequent creation of a prize in his honor for the best work of fiction by a new Japanese writer. For 10 points, name the writer of "Hana," "The Spider's Thread" who inspired a movie based on two of his stories, "In a Grove", and "Rashomon" .
His story "A Woman's Body" is a praise of femininity from the eyes of a man transformed into a flea; his "The Badger" discusses badgers turning into humans.
Ryuunosuke {Akutagawa} [or {Chokodo} Shujin; or {Gaki}]