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Rashomon, and Other Stories Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Preface
Introduction
Rashomon and Other Stories
* In a Grove
* The Testimony of a Woodcutter Questioned by a High Police Commissioner
* The Testimony of a Traveling Buddhist Priest Questioned by a High Police Commissioner
* The Testimony of a Policeman Questioned by a High Police Commissioner
* The Testimony of an Old Woman Questioned by a High Police Commissioner
* The Confession of a Woman Who Has Come to the Shimizu Temple
* The Story of the Murdered Man, as Told Through a Medium
Yam Gruel
The Martyr
* Postscript
Kesa and Morito
Part I
* Morito's Monologue
Part II
* Kesa's Monologue
The Dragon
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PREFACE
THE SIX STORIES of this collection were chosen with the aim of presenting Akutagawa's finest and most representative writings. Only one of them (Rashomon) has appeared in an earlier translation.
I wish to express my thanks to the following persons, for their kind assistance, and for their many valuable suggestions and criticisms: Mr. C. G. Wells, Chief Writer of the Far East Network; Mr. Walter E. Morgan, Chief of the School Administration and Finance Branch, CIE, SCAP; Mr. Harold Gosling and Mr. John Rockard, correspondents of the British Commonwealth Public Relations; Mr. Richard B. Farnsworth, formerly of CIE, SCAP; and Lieutenant D. L. Donohugh, formerly of the Press