This author's career began by translating Yeats and publishing original works in a journal called "New Currents of Thought." One of his final works was a satire about a "Kappa," or "water imp." In 1918 he published "The Spider's Thread" and "Hell Screen". His most acclaimed work consists of seven co
This author's career began by translating Yeats and publishing original works in a journal called "New Currents of Thought." One of his final works was a satire about a "Kappa," or "water imp." In 1918 he published "The Spider's Thread" and "Hell Screen". His most acclaimed work consists of seven conflicting descriptions of the murder of a samurai. Akira Kurosawa would later direct a film based on that story, "In a Grove," but titled after this man's first major work, in which a starving man steals a woman's kimono. For ten points, identify this namesake of Japan's greatest literary prize for young short story writers, a writer best known for "Rashomon."
This author's career began by translating Yeats and publishing original works in a journal called "New Currents of Thought.
{Akutagawa} Ryunosuke