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

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