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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 about a long object that is boiled and stomped on before having millet-like beads of fat extracted. A thief created by this author of “Horse Legs” claims to have lured a victim by promising cheap goods like mirrors buried a mountain. In a story by this non-Russian author of “The Nose,” (10[1])a man steals clothes from an old crone after watching her rip hairs from a corpse for a wig. Witnesses including a traveling priest and a woodcutter testify to a police commissioner in a story by this author comprised of seven conflicting accounts (-5[1])of a samurai’s death. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of “In A Grove” (10[1])and “Rashomon.” (10[1])■END■

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