Three Strange Tales, trans. Glenn Anderson (One Peace Books, 2012).
The Three Treasures, trans. Takamasa Sasaki (Hokuseido, 1951).
‘Travels in China’, trans. Joshua A. Fogel, in Chinese Studies in History (1997).
Tu Tze-Chun, trans. Dorothy Britton, with woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara, and an introduction by E. G. Seidensticker (Kodansha International, 1965).
‘Western Man, Western Man Continued’, trans. Akiko Inoue, in Posthumous Works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Tenri, Tenri Jihosha, 1961).
‘Wonder Island’, trans. Dan O’Neill, in Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911–1932, ed. Angela Yiu (University of Hawai’i Press, 2013).
The following texts contain studies of Akutagawa’s life and work:
Akutagawa Fumi, Tsuisō Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (Chūō Kōron-sha, 1981).
Bates, Alex, The Culture of the Quake (University of Michigan, 2015).
De Vos, George A., with Hiroshi Wagatsuma, ‘Alienation and the Author; A Triptych on Social Conformity and Deviancy in Japanese Intellectuals’, in Socialization for Achievement, ed. George A. De Vos (University of California Press, 1973).
Fowler, Edward, The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction (University of California Press, 1988).
Fukasawa, Margaret Benton, Kitahara Hakushū: His Life and Poetry (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993).
Hibbett, Howard S., ‘Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’, in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (Scribner’s, 2001).
Hibbett, Howard S., ‘Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and the Negative Ideal’, in Personality in Japanese History, ed. Albert M. Craig and Donald H. Shively (University of California Press, 1970).
Hirotsu Kazuo, Shinpen Dōjidai no Sakka-tachi (Iwanami shoten, 1992).
Iga, Mamoru, ‘Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’, in The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum (University of California Press, 1986).
Ishiwari Tōru (ed.), Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Shokan-shū (Iwanami shoten, 2009).
Ishiwari Tōru (ed.), Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Zuihitsu-shū (Iwanami shoten, 2014).
Karatani, Kōjin, ‘On the Power to Construct’, in Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, trans. Brett de Bary (Duke University Press, 1993).
Keene, Donald, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984).
Kondō Tomie, Tabata Bunshi-mura (Chūō Kōron-sha, 1983).
Kuzumaki Yoshitoshi, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Miteikōshū (Iwanami shoten, 1968).
Lippit, Seiji M., ‘Disintegrating Mechanisms of Subjectivity: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Last Writings’, in Topographies of Japanese Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2002).
Matsumoto Seichō, Shōwa-shi Hakkutsu (Bungei Shunjū, 1978).
Morimoto Osamu, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Denki Ronkō (Meiji shoin, 1964).
Napier, Susan J., The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature (Routledge, 1996).
Niina Noriaki, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke no Nagasaki (Nagasaki Bunkensha, 2015).
Richie, Donald, Rashōmon (Rutgers, 1987).
Schencking, Charles J., The Great Kantō Earthquake (Columbia University Press, 2013).
Sekiguchi Yasuyoshi (ed.), Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Shin-Jiten (Kanrin shobō, 2003).
Suter, Rebecca, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015).
Uchida Hyakken, Watashi no ‘Sōseki’ to ‘Ryūnosuke’ (Chikuma shobō, 1993).
Ueda, Makoto, ‘Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’, in Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature (Stanford University Press, 1976).
Weisenfeld, Gennifer, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (University of California Press, 2012).
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki, ‘The Rivals: Shiga Naoya and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’, in The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1978).
Yamazaki Mitsuo, Yabu no Naka no Ie (Bungei Shunjū, 1997).
Yoshida Seiichi et al. (eds), Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū, 8 vols (Chikuma shobō, 1964–5).
Yu, Beongcheon, Akutagawa: An Introduction (Wayne State University Press, 1972).
The following texts are of or about the times in which Akutagawa lived:
Bargen, Doris G., Suicidal Honor (University of Hawai’i Press, 2006).
Beongcheon Yu, Natsume Sōseki (Twayne, 1969).
DiNitto, Rebecca, Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Pre-war Japan (Harvard University Press, 2008).
Dong, Stella, Shanghai (William Morrow, 2000).
Gluck, Carol, Japan’s Modern Myths (Princeton University Press, 1985).
Heinrich, Amy Vladeck, Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saitō Mokichi (Columbia University Press, 1983).
Irwin, John T., The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Karatani, Kōjin, History and Repetition, trans. and ed. Seiji M. Lippit (Columbia University Press, 2012).
Kawabata, Yasunari, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, trans. Alisa Freedman, with a foreword and afterword by Donald Richie (University of California Press, 2005).
Keene, Dennis, Yokomitsu Riichi Modernist (Columbia University Press, 1980).
Kurosawa, Akira, Something Like an Autobiography, trans. Audie E. Bock (Vintage Books, 1983).
Lifton, Robert Jay, Katō, Shūichi, and Reich, Michael R., Six Lives, Six Deaths (Yale University Press, 1979).
Mansfield, Stephen, Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History (Signal Books, 2009).
Mitford, A. B., Tales of Old Japan (Macmillan, 1876).
Ōgai, Mori, Not a Song Like Any Other: An Anthology of Writings by Mori Ōgai, ed. J. Thomas Rimmer (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004).
Ōgai, Mori, Youth and Other Stories, trans. and ed. J. Thomas Rimmer (University of Hawai’i Press, 1994).
Poe, Edgar Allan, The Complete Tales and Poems (Penguin, 1982).
Rimmer, J. Thomas, Mori Ōgai (Twayne, 1975).
Saito, Satoru, Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2012).
Saitō, Mokichi, Red Lights: Selected Tanka Sequences from Shakkō, trans. Seishi Shinoda and Sanford Goldstein (Purdue Research Foundation, 1989).
Seidensticker, Edward, Low City, High City (Harvard University Press, 1983).
Seidensticker, Edward, Tokyo Rising (Charles E. Tuttle, 1991).
Songling, Pu, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, trans. John Minford (Penguin, 2006).
Sōseki, Natsume, Kokoro, trans. Edwin McClellan (Regnery Publishing, 1957).
Sōseki, Natsume, The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London, trans. and with an introduction by Damian Flanagan (Peter Owen, 2004).
Sōseki, Natsume, The Wayfarer, trans. Beongcheon Yu (Tuttle, 1969).
Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō, Red Roofs & Other Stories, trans. Anthony H. Chalmers and Paul McCarthy (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
Tietjens, Eunice, Profiles from China (Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1917).
Tyler, William J. (ed.), Modaniizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913–1938 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008).
Uchida, Hyakken, Realm of the Dead, trans. Rachel DiNitto (Dalkey, 2006).
Waley, Paul, Tokyo: City of Stories (Weatherhill, 1991).
Waley, Paul, Tokyo Now and Then (Weatherhill, 1984).
Yokomitsu, Riichi, Shanghai, trans. Dennis Washburn (Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001).
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations:
Frontispiece: Akutagawa, in his study, 1924.
Title page: Kappa drawn by Akutagawa, c.1922.
After the Thread: postcard of the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, Tokyo, c.1910.
Hell Screens: Akutagawa, c.1896, 1905 and 1927.
Repetition: photographs of General Nogi and his wife on the morning of their deaths, September 13, 1912, taken by Akio Shinroku.
Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom: a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin, as mentioned in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 1899.
A Twice-Told Tale: Men’s Head by Kazimir Malevich, date uncertain.
The Yellow Christ: The Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin, 1889. Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
After the War: postcard of
