Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

(Japanese 芥川龙之介, Akutagaw a Ryūnosuke?, (March 1, 1892 in Tokyo, died. July 24, 1927 ibid) - Japanese writer and poet. It is called the father of Japanese short-story . It is believed that by traditional calendar, Akuta gawa was born in the year, month, day and hour of the Dragon (Tatsu). For this reason he was given the name Ryūnosuke associated with a dragon (Ryu - sinojapońskie reading of the dragon ). Because of this, however, that no part of the documents concerning the correct time of birth, and a month belonged to the tiger difficult to accept this version, the more that the writer has changed the spelling of his name.

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