RASHOMON AND OTHER STORIES

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Takashi Kojima, M. Kuwata, stories, translation

$550 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English in Japan by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, In A Grove and Rashomon, served as the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's masterful film adaptation,

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