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Loyalty and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He died by suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.
"Loyalty" and "O-Gin" paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants.
Women that appear in Akutagawa's stories, much like the women he identified as mothers, were mostly written as dominating, aggressive, deceitful, and selfish. Conversely, men were often represented as the victims of such women, such as in Kesa to Morito ("Kesa and Morito", 1918), in which the leading female character attempts to control the actions of both her lover and husband.
- - Contents - -
1. Dr.Ogata Ryosai: Memorandum
2. Dragon: The Old Potter’s Tale
3. Kesa and Morito
4. The Story of a Head That Fell Off
5. Loyalty
6. O-Gin
7. Horse Legs
8. Green Onions
