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“... invades his dreams. He records one of these visitations: Recently I had a dream in which I met Akutagawa Ryonosuke. He was wearing a rumpled summer kimono, and sat with folded arms and his eyes downcast. He did not utter a word, but suddenly stood up, parted the bamboo curtain behind him, and went into the next room. I knew that the neighbouring room was ...”

“... there was no reason to apotheosise any one of them in order to kill it.’ Arima quotes the writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke: ‘There are many reasons to kill God, but there is no god in Japan who deserves to be killed.’ Church was never separated from state in Japan. There was never a religious dogma to serve as a moral check on the often arbitrary ways of ...”

“... concerned with eight ‘writers’: Natsume Soseki, Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Shiga Naoya, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Dazai Osamu, Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima Yukio. It is difficult to say whether these writers were chosen because some works of theirs have been translated into English. Other writers from Mori Ogai to Inoue Yasushi (and various ...”

“... 1994, adopts a highly stylised structure for the new book, partly based on two short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke: ‘Rashomon’, about an old woman who steals hair from corpses at Kyoto’s Rashomon Gate, and ‘In a Grove’, in which the murder of a samurai is described in different ways by different witnesses, altering our perception of the ...”