The title gang of robbers is challenged by a group of these people in the first story of The Beautiful and the Grotesque. A different story begins with a servant recently dismissed by one of these people standing with a cricket under the title location in the rain. A man with a bow and arrows is arrested by a policeman after falling off a stolen sorrel horse belonging to one of these people. Ambrose Bierce’s “The Moonlit (15[1])Road” inspired a story in which the wife of one of these people attempts to kill herself by stabbing her throat and throwing herself into a pond. A man with this profession recounts stabbing himself beneath a (*) cedar tree. That person of this profession speaks through a medium after conflicting testimonies during (10[1])the trial of the bandit Tajōmaru. For 10 points, the death of what sort of person in Akutagawa's (10[1])story “In a Grove” (10[1])may have been by seppuku? ■END■