Akutagawa ryunosuke biography
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (–)
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March – 24 July ), art nameChōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人),[2] was a Japanesewriter 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.[3] He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.[4]
Early life
[edit]Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born in Irifune, Kyōbashi, Tokyo City (present-day Akashi, Chūō, Tokyo), the eldest son of businessman Toshizō Niihara and his wife Fuku. His family owned a milk production business.[5] His mother experienced mental illness shortly after his birth, so he was adopted and raised bygd his maternal uncle, Michiaki Akutagawa, from whom he received the A
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Appearance
Akutagawa has a slim build and very pale skin. He often covers his face with his hand due to his frequent coughing. He has short, choppy black hair with side bangs that reach his chin and turn white at the tips. His eyes are sharp, somewhat baggy, and a dark empty grey.
He wears a long, black coat reaching past his knees over black-fitting pants and black dress shoes. Underneath his coat, he dons a white dress shirt, decorated with a layered ruffled fabric. He also wears a white jabot.
When Akutagawa used to live in the slums, he wore dirty and ragged clothes.[6]
When on his day off, he wears a simple black coat and frameless tinted glasses.[7]
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JAPAN'S EDGAR ALLAN POE
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, you'll probably also enjoy those of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. As many of us consider Poe () our greatest short story writer, in Japan many consider Akutagawa () theirs. And he has a remarkable number of other things in common with Poe.
In spite of what might first appear to be polar differences, even their lives were similar. Poe was born in Boston on January 19, , and died in Baltimore, on October 7, , so lived only forty years--a short and troubled life. His parents were traveling actors, but both died before Poe was three. He was then adopted by the John Allans, who lived in England through his grade-school years. But in his teens he became alienated from his adoptive father, and was finally disinherited by him.
It also seemed that, not only his mother and foster mother, but all the women closest to Poe died lingering deaths of tuberculosis. When his young wif