Akutagawa's Hana #2 for Intermediate Students of Japanese

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For Intermediates + Part 2 of 8 Please Note: a free PDF with Vocabulary notes and the text itself is available at thejapanesepage.com Akutagawa Ryūnosuke wrote over 150 short stories in his short life (died at 35). Kurosawa based his famous movie, Rashōmon (羅生門) on Akutagawa's Rashōmon and In a Grove (藪の中 yabu no naka) another short story written in 1921. This story, The Nose (鼻 hana), was composed in 1916 and is about a monk with a very large nose (hence the title). The story ...