Question

In a story by this author, two afterlife officials mistakenly kill the protagonist with a stroke meant for Henry Barrett and send him back to life with the title body parts. This author wrote (10[1]-5[1])about a long object that is boiled and stomped (10[1])on before having (10[1])millet-like (10[2])beads (10[1])of fat (10[1])extracted. (10[1])A thief created by (10[1])this author of “Horse Legs” (10[3])claims to have (10[1]-5[1])lured a (-5[1])victim by (-5[1])promising cheap goods like mirrors buried (10[1])a mountain. (10[1]-5[1])In a story by this non-Russian author of “The Nose,” (10[2]-5[1])a (10[1]-5[1])man steals (-5[2])clothes (10[1])from an old (10[1])crone (10[1]-5[1])after (10[1])watching (10[2])her (-5[1])rip (10[1])hairs (10[2])from a (10[1])corpse (10[2])for a wig. (10[1])Witnesses (10[1]-5[1])including a traveling priest and a woodcutter (10[1])testify to a (10[1])police commissioner (10[1]-5[1])in a (10[1])story by (10[1])this (10[2]0[1])author (10[1])comprised of seven conflicting accounts (-5[1])of a samurai’s death. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Japanese author (10[1])of (-5[1])“In A Grove” (10[1])and “Rashomon.” (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[7])

ANSWER: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa [or Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; or Niihara Ryūnosuke; accept Chōkōdō Shujin]
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