For 10 points, name this author of "
A character in one of this man's stories claims that another character used to chop up and dry snakes and sell the result as fish in the market. The protagonist of that story by this man has a large red pimple on his cheek and considers whether to become a thief as he huddles beneath a gate for shelter from the rain. In another story by this author, a thief says that a woman asked him to kill her husband while the wife claims her husband asked to be killed. That story by him ends with the murdered Takehiko telling his side of the story through a medium. This author wrote a work about a servant who meets an old woman who is pulling the hair from a corpse to make a wig, and a work that details conflicting testimonies on a murder. For 10 points, name this author of "In a Grove" and "Rashomon," a Japanese short story writer.
A character in one of this man's stories claims that another character used to chop up and dry snakes and sell the result as fish in the market.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke [accept in either order]