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    Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese author known as the 'father of the Japanese short story' who committed suicide in 1927 at age 35 by overdosing on barbiturates. He wrote over 150 short stories and helped establish the Akutagawa Prize for young Japanese authors.

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    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

    Rynosuke Akutagawa, known by his pen name Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Japanese
    author who wrote during the Taish era in Japan. He is known as the "father of the
    Japanese short story," and the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest literary honor, bears
    his name. At the age of 35, he overdosed on barbiturates and committed suicide.

    Life:
     Born: March 1, 1892, Kyōbashi-ku,Tokyo
     Died: July 24, 1927, Kita City, Tokyo, Japan
     Siblings: Hisa Nishikawa
     Children: Yasushi Akutagawa, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Takashi Akutagawa
     Spouse: Fumi Akutagawa
    Early Life:
    o He grew close to classmates Kan Kikuchi, Kume Masao, Yz
    Yamamoto, and Tsuchiya Bunmei, all of whom would go on to
    become writers, when he enrolled in the First High School in
    1910. After enrolling at Tokyo Imperial University (now the
    University of Tokyo) in 1913 to study English literature, he
    started writing.
    Literary career:
    o In 1921, Akutagawa interrupted his writing career to spend four
    months in China, as a reporter for the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun.
    The trip was stressful and he suffered from various illnesses,
    from which his health would never recover. Shortly after his
    return he published Yabu no naka ("In a Grove", 1922).
    o Akutagawa visited numerous cities of southeastern China
    including Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. Before his
    travel, he wrote a short story "The Christ of Nanjing"; concerning
    the Chinese Christian community; according to his own
    imaginative vision of Nanjing, as influenced by classical
    Chinese literature.

    Later life:
    o Akutagawa experienced visual hallucinations at the end of his
    life and anxiety over the worry that he might have inherited his
    mother's mental illness. He and a friend of his wife's survived
    a suicide attempt in 1927. He was prescribed Veronal by
    Mokichi Sait on July 24, the same year, and later committed
    suicide by taking an excessive amount of the drug.

    Works:
     Akutagawa's final works include Kappa (1927), a satire based on the
    eponymous creature from Japanese folklore, Haguruma ("Spinning
    Gears" or "Cogwheels", 1927), Aru ahō no isshō ("A Fool's Life" or
    "The Life of a Stupid Man"), and Bungeiteki na, amari ni bungeiteki na
    ("Literary, All Too Literary", 1927).
     Akutagawa Prize, also known as Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Sh, is a
    semi-annual literary award given to the best work of fiction by a
    budding young Japanese author. The prize is typically regarded as
    Japan's most prestigious and sought-after literary award, alongside the
    Naoki Prize (for the best piece of popular fiction).
     During the course of his short life, Akutagawa wrote 150 short stories.
    A number of these have been adapted into other media.

    Questions:
    1. He is recognized as the father of Japanese short story—the person behind Ina
    Grove's 1922 publication.
    a) Kyoto Ink.
    b) Natsume Soseki
    c) Kōbō Abe
    d) Chōkōdō Shujin
    2. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was overdosed by a medication that cause you to relax or feel
    drowsy and help ease convulsions and seizures.
    a) Celexa
    b) Lexapro
    c) Barbiturates
    d) Prozac
    3. is a semi-annual literary award given to the best work of fiction by a budding young
    Japanese author.
    a) Akutagawa Prize
    b) Honkaku Mystery Award
    c) Bungei Prize
    d) Japan Booksellers' Award
    4. It was the year that Ryūnosuke Akutagawa publish the Yabu no Naka (In a Grove,
    1922).
    a) 1980
    b) 1924
    c) 1832
    d) 1922
    5. These are the works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, EXCEPT.
    a) The Christ of Nanjing
    b) The Real Tripitaka and Other Pieces
    c) Tales Happiness and Curiosity
    d) Exotic Japanese stories: The Beautiful and the Grotesque

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