This is a kind of omnibus collection of stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, most famous for his two stories “Rashomon” and “In a Grove” both of which became the inspiration for the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, which won the first Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Those two stories are the first two stories in the collection. “Rashomon” refers to the large red-lacquered gate under which a few travelers find themselves meeting during a large rainstorm. “In a Grove” is written in a series of interviews with […]