In that work, because of his lack of compassion, Kandata fails to escape hell with the title conveyance.
One character created by this author supposedly stole another man's quiver and seventeen hawk-feather arrows. In another work by this author, a prostitute named Song Jinhua is cured of syphilis after she sleeps with a half-American, half-Japanese man pretending to be Jesus Christ. This author wrote a story where Goi wants to eat his fill of yam (*) gruel.  In another of his works, one character sends another character a tool through a lotus pond to escape Blood Lake. In that work, because of his lack of compassion, Kandata fails to escape hell with the title conveyance. He also wrote a story which presents a number of contradictory accounts of the murder of a samurai. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of "The Christ of Nanking," "The Spider's Thread," and "In a Grove."
One character created by this author supposedly stole another man's quiver and seventeen hawk-feather arrows.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke [accept in either order]