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This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa’s film “Rashomon”, made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
| Subjects: | Japan, Fiction Japan, Social life and customs, Fiction Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Translations into English |
| Notes: | Contents: In a grove, Rashomon, Yam gruel, The martyr, Kess and Morito, The dragon. Introduction by Howard Hibbett. Illustrations by M. Kuwata. |
| Description: | 110 p. : ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780871401731 |
| OCLC Number: | 578967240 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Publisher: | Liveright Pub. Corp., 1952, 1970, 1999; Tuttle, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1967, 2001, 2007, 2011; Bantam Books, 1952, 1959, 1970 |
| Publication Place: | New York; Rutland, VT, Boston, New York; New York |
| Japanese Publication Date: | Rashomon: 1914, Yam gruel: 1916, The martyr: 1918, In a grove: 1922, The dragon: 1919 |
| English Publication Date: | 1952 |
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