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64 relations: A Note to a Certain Old Friend, Akira Kurosawa, Akutagawa Prize, Anatole France, Art name, Autobiography, Autumn Mountain, Barbital, China, Chinese literature, Dragon (zodiac), Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale, Drug overdose, Edo period, English language, English literature, Furigana, Haiku, Hallucination, Hangzhou, Heian period, Hell Screen, In a Grove, Japan, Japanese folklore, Japanese people, Jay Rubin, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kan Kikuchi, Kappa (novel), Kyōbashi, List of Japanese writers, Literary award, Literary magazine, Mainichi Shimbun, Masao Kume, Mayako Kubo, Meiji period, Mental health, Mokichi Saitō, Mori Ōgai, Nanjing, Natsume Sōseki, Naturalism (literature), Osaka, Rashōmon (short story), Rashomon, Satire, Shanghai, Short story, ..., Suicide, Suzhou, Taishō period, The Japan Times, The Nose (Akutagawa short story), The Spider's Thread, Tokyo, Tyrant Books, University of Tokyo, Victoria Poleva, W. B. Yeats, Yasushi Akutagawa, Yūzō Yamamoto, Yokosuka, Kanagawa. Expand index (14 more) »
A Note to a Certain Old Friend
is the title of the suicide note left by the famed Japanese short story writer, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
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Akutagawa Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented semi-annually.
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Anatole France
italic (born italic,; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers.
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Art name
A pseudonym or pen name, also known by its native names hao (in China), gō (in Japan) and ho (in Korea), is a professional name used by East Asian artists.
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Autobiography
An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.
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Autumn Mountain
is a 1921 short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Barbital
Barbital (or barbitone), marketed under the brand names Veronal for the pure acid and Medinal for the sodium salt, was the first commercially available barbiturate.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese literature
The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature vernacular fiction novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese.
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Dragon (zodiac)
The Dragon is the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale
is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Drug overdose
The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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English literature
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.
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Furigana
is a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller kana, or syllabic characters, printed next to a kanji (ideographic character) or other character to indicate its pronunciation.
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Haiku
(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.
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Hallucination
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.
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Hangzhou
Hangzhou (Mandarin:; local dialect: /ɦɑŋ tseɪ/) formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China.
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Heian period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.
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Hell Screen
is a short story written by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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In a Grove
is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanese folklore
Japanese folklore encompasses the folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people.
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Japanese people
are a nation and an ethnic group that is native to Japan and makes up 98.5% of the total population of that country.
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Jay Rubin
Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American academic and translator.
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
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Kan Kikuchi
, known by his pen name Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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Kappa (novel)
Kappa (河童) is a novel written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa in 1927.
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Kyōbashi
is the name of a bridge as well as the geographical region around it.
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List of Japanese writers
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.
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Literary award
A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.
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Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.
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Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by.
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Masao Kume
was a Japanese popular playwright, novelist and haiku poet (under the pen-name of Santei) active during the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan.
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Mayako Kubo
Mayako Kubo (born 5 December 1947) is a Japanese pianist and composer.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Mental health
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.
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Mokichi Saitō
was a Japanese poet of the Taishō period, a member of the Araragi school of tanka, and a psychiatrist.
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Mori Ōgai
Lieutenant-General, known by his pen name Mori Ōgai, was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori.
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Nanjing
Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500.
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Natsume Sōseki
, born, was a Japanese novelist.
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Naturalism (literature)
The term naturalism was coined by Émile Zola, who defines it as a literary movement which emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.
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Osaka
() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.
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Rashōmon (short story)
is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.
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Rashomon
is a 1950 Japanese period film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.
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Taishō period
The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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The Nose (Akutagawa short story)
is a satirical short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on a thirteenth-century Japanese tale from the Uji Shūi Monogatari.Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. "The Nose" was Akutagawa’s second short story, written not long after "Rashōmon". It was first published in January 1916 in the Tokyo Imperial University student magazine Shinshichō and later published in other magazines and various Akutagawa anthologies. The story is mainly a commentary on vanity and religion, in a style and theme typical to Akutagawa’s work.
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The Spider's Thread
is a 1918 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first published in the children's magazine Akai Tori.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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Tyrant Books
Tyrant Books is an independent book publisher based in Rome, Italy and New York, New York.
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University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Victoria Poleva
Victoria Vita Polevá (also spelled: Poleváya; Вікторія Польова; Виктория Полевая.; born September 11, 1962) is a Ukrainian composer.
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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Yasushi Akutagawa
was a Japanese composer and conductor.
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Yūzō Yamamoto
was a Japanese novelist and playwright.
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Yokosuka, Kanagawa
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryūnosuke_Akutagawa
