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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 (10[2])beads of fat extracted. A thief created by this author of “Horse Legs” claims to have (10[1])lured a 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 crone after watching (10[1])her (-5[1])rip (10[1])hairs from a corpse (10[1])for a wig. (10[1])Witnesses including a traveling priest and a woodcutter testify to a police commissioner (10[1])in a (10[1])story by this author comprised of seven conflicting accounts of a samurai’s death. For 10 points, name this Japanese author (10[1])of (-5[1])“In A Grove” and “Rashomon.” ■END■

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