A review by balletbookworm
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.0

Excellent collection of short stories ranging from historical to autobiographical opening with the two stories that inspired Kurosawa's film, Rashōmon and In a Bamboo Grove. Very good translation and notes by Jay Rubin (approximately half the stories are Bing published in English for the first time) and an introduction by Haruki Murakami.

So sad that Akutagawa ended his life so early. What would he have made of Japan in the 1930s, 40s, and beyond?