Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born on 1 March 1892 in Tokyo. His mother being ill, he was entrusted as a child to her elder brother, whose name he took. He studied English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1913 and from 1915 frequented the circle of Natsume Sōseki, who encouraged him to draw on old tales. He did indeed take many of his stories from twelfth- and thirteenth-century collections, which he rewrote with a modern psychology. He poisoned himself in Tokyo on 24 July 1927.

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