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In one story by this author, the narrator is annoyed at a lower-class woman sitting beside him on the train until he sees her throwing the title fruit at children. This author of "Mandarins" wrote a short story about a man who is haunted by a raincoat-wearing ghost and descends into madness, ending the story by asking "Isn't there someone kind of enough to strangle me in my sleep?" This author's suicide note is titled "A Note to a Certain Old Friend." He wrote about a monk who learns how to shorten the title body part in "The Nose." He wrote a story in which a man sees a woman stealing hair from dead bodies and ends up stealing her robe. That story takes place at the title gate in Kyoto. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of "Spinning Gears" and "Rashomon."
In one story by this author, the narrator is annoyed at a lower-class woman sitting beside him on the train until he sees her throwing the title fruit at children.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa