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Here are some covers of books by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

My Family

Tales of the Grotesque Curious is Akutagawa Ryunosuke's rarest book translated into engilsh.

My sister and Me

Rashomon- Akutagawa Ryunosuke's most popular book. It's a complex short four different views on a crime.

My niece and nephew

A scene from Rashamon, it was his most popular story and was eventually converted into a movie circa the 1950's and earned an Academy Award for best foreign film and a Golden Lion.

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A Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fictitious Kappaland. Peopled with creatures from Japanese folklore, Kappaland serves as a vehicle for the humorous examination of the moral foibles of Japanese society in the early 20th century.