Akutagawa

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Akutagawa Ryunosuke reworked the old Japanese and Buddhist tales into modern short stories: Rashomon and In a Grove out of the medieval Konjaku collection, and The Spider's Thread out of a Buddhist parable — a sinner in hell offered escape by a single spider's thread, who loses it through his own selfishness. The classical tale made a modern mirror of the human heart. — modern Japanese literature