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24-549: Akutagawa (written: 芥川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ( 芥川 龍之介 , 1892–1927) , Japanese poet and writer Yasushi Akutagawa ( 芥川 也寸志 , 1925–1989) , Japanese composer and conductor, son of Akutagawa Ryunosuke Madokoro Akutagawa Saori ( 芥川 (間所) 紗織 , Akutagawa (Madokoro) Saori ) (1924–1966) , Japanese painter David Akutagawa (1937–2008), Japanese-Canadian martial artist See also [ edit ] Akutagawa Prize ,

48-457: A Stupid Man"), and Bungeiteki na, amari ni bungeiteki na ("Literary, All Too Literary", 1927). Towards the end of his life, Akutagawa suffered from visual hallucinations and anxiety over the fear that he had inherited his mother's mental disorder. In 1927, he survived a suicide attempt, together with a friend of his wife. He later died of suicide after taking an overdose of Veronal , which had been given to him by Mokichi Saitō on 24 July of

72-515: A Withered Field", 1918), Jigoku hen ("Hell Screen", 1918); Hōkyōnin no shi ("The Death of a Christian", 1918), and Butōkai ("The Ball", 1920). Akutagawa was a strong opponent of naturalism . He published Mikan ("Mandarin Oranges", 1919) and Aki ("Autumn", 1920) which have more modern settings. In 1921, Akutagawa interrupted his writing career to spend four months in China , as a reporter for

96-600: A literary award Akutagawa (crater) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Akutagawa . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akutagawa&oldid=1144831106 " Categories : Surnames Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with short description Short description

120-526: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Ry%C5%ABnosuke Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was born in Irifune , Kyōbashi , Tokyo City (present-day Akashi, Chūō , Tokyo ), the eldest son of businessman Toshizō Niihara and his wife Fuku. His family owned a milk production business. His mother experienced mental illness shortly after his birth , so he was adopted and raised by his maternal uncle, Michiaki Akutagawa, from whom he received

144-489: Is set in the early missionary period. The portrayal of women in Akutagawa's stories was mainly shaped by the influence of three women who acted as his mother figures. Most significant was his biological mother Fuku, from whom he worried about inheriting her madness. Although Akutagawa was removed from Fuku eight months after his birth, he identified strongly with her and believed that, if at any moment he might go mad, life

168-522: The Osaka Mainichi Shinbun . The trip was stressful and he suffered from various illnesses, from which his health would never recover. Shortly after his return he published Yabu no naka (" In a Grove ", 1922). During the trip, Akutagawa visited numerous cities of southeastern China including Nanjing , Shanghai , Hangzhou and Suzhou . Before his travel, he wrote a short story " The Christ of Nanjing  [ ja ] "; concerning

192-725: The Soviet Union yet, Akutagawa entered the Soviet Union illegally, and made friends with Dmitri Shostakovich , Aram Khachaturian and Dmitri Kabalevsky . Akutagawa was the only Japanese composer whose works were officially published in the Soviet Union at that time. His 1950 Music for Symphony Orchestra reflects his love of the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Akutagawa's compositions were influenced by Stravinsky , Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Akira Ifukube . His film scores include works for directors like Kon Ichikawa , Heinosuke Gosho , Tomu Uchida and Tadashi Imai . He

216-532: The literary award for promising new writers, the Akutagawa Prize , in his honor. In 2020 NHK produced and aired the film A Stranger in Shanghai . It depicts Akutagawa's time as a reporter in the city and stars Ryuhei Matsuda . Yasushi Akutagawa Yasushi Akutagawa ( 芥川 也寸志 , Akutagawa Yasushi , July 12, 1925 – January 31, 1989) was a Japanese composer and conductor . His father

240-517: The Akutagawa family name. He was interested in classical Chinese literature from an early age, as well as in the works of Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki . He entered the First High School in 1910 and developed relationships with classmates such as Kan Kikuchi , Kume Masao , Yūzō Yamamoto , and Tsuchiya Bunmei  [ ja ] , all of whom would later become authors. He began writing after entering Tokyo Imperial University (now

264-491: The Chinese Christian community; according to his own imaginative vision of Nanjing, as influenced by classical Chinese literature. Akutagawa's stories were influenced by his belief that the practice of literature should be universal and could bring together Western and Japanese cultures. The idea can be seen in the way that Akutagawa used existing works from a variety of cultures and time periods and either rewrites

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288-643: The Rashomon Gate taken from Akutagawa's Rashōmon . Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva wrote the ballet Gagaku (1994), based on Akutagawa's Hell Screen . Japanese composer Mayako Kubo wrote an opera entitled Rashomon , based on Akutagawa's story. The German version premiered in Graz, Austria in 1996, and the Japanese version in Tokyo in 2002. The central conceit of the story (i.e. conflicting accounts of

312-459: The University of Tokyo) in 1913, where he studied English literature . While still a student, he proposed marriage to a childhood friend, Yayoi Yoshida, but his adoptive family did not approve the union. In 1916 he became engaged to Fumi Tsukamoto  [ ja ] , whom he married in 1918. They had three children: Hiroshi Akutagawa (1920–1981) was an actor, Takashi Akutagawa (1922–1945)

336-459: The following year in the literary magazine Teikoku Bungaku ("Imperial Literature"), while still a student. The story, based on a twelfth-century tale, was not well received by Akutagawa's friends, who greatly criticized it. Nonetheless, Akutagawa gathered up the courage to visit his idol, Natsume Sōseki , in December 1915 for Sōseki's weekly literary circles. In November, he published the work in

360-435: The importance of structure versus lyricism in stories. Akutagawa argued that structure (how the story was told) was more important than the content or plot of the story, whereas Tanizaki argued the opposite. Akutagawa's final works include Kappa (1927), a satire based on the eponymous creature from Japanese folklore , Haguruma ("Spinning Gears" or "Cogwheels", 1927), Aru ahō no isshō ("A Fool's Life" or "The Life of

384-703: The literary magazine Teikoku Mongaku . In early 1916 he published "Hana" ("The Nose", 1916), which received a letter of praise from Sōseki and secured Akutagawa his first taste of fame. It was also at this time that Akutagawa started writing haiku under the haigo ( pen name ) Gaki . Akutagawa followed with a series of short stories set in Heian period , Edo period or early Meiji period Japan. These stories reinterpreted classical works and historical incidents. Examples of these stories include: Gesaku zanmai ("Absorbed in Letters", 1917) and Kareno-shō ("Gleanings from

408-487: The same events from different points of view, with none "definitive") has entered into storytelling as an accepted trope. In 1930, Tatsuo Hori , a writer, who saw himself as a disciple of Akutagawa, published his short story " Sei kazoku " (literally "The Holy Family"), which was written under the impression of Akutagawa's death and even paid reference to the dead mentor in the shape of the deceased character Kuki. In 1935, Akutagawa's lifelong friend Kan Kikuchi established

432-413: The same year. In his will he wrote that he felt a "vague insecurity" ( ぼんやりした不安 , bon'yari shita fuan ) about the future. He was 35 years old. During the course of his short life, Akutagawa wrote 150 short stories. A number of these have been adapted into other media. Akira Kurosawa 's famous 1950 film Rashōmon retells Akutagawa's In a Bamboo Grove , with the title and the frame scenes set in

456-406: The story with modern sensibilities or creates new stories using ideas from multiple sources. Culture and the formation of a cultural identity is also a major theme in several of his works. In these stories, he explores the formation of cultural identity during periods in history where Japan was most open to outside influences. An example of this is his story "Hōkyōnin no Shi" ("The Martyr", 1918) which

480-534: Was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa . Akutagawa was born and raised in Tabata, Tokyo , the son of writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Akutagawa studied composition with Kunihiko Hashimoto , Kan'ichi Shimofusa and Akira Ifukube at the Tokyo Music School . He was one of the members of Sannin no kai (The Three) along with Ikuma Dan and Toshiro Mayuzumi . In 1954, when Japan did not have diplomatic relations with

504-792: Was killed as a student draftee in Burma, and Yasushi Akutagawa (1925–1989) was a composer. Following graduation, Akutagawa taught briefly at the Naval Engineering School in Yokosuka, Kanagawa as an English language instructor, before deciding to devote his efforts to writing fulltime. In 1914, Akutagawa and his former high school friends revived the literary journal Shinshichō ("New Currents of Thought"), where they published translations of William Butler Yeats and Anatole France along with works they had written themselves. Akutagawa published his second short story " Rashōmon "

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528-416: Was marked by deteriorating physical and mental health . Much of his work during this period is distinctly autobiographical , some with text taken directly from his diaries. His works during this period include Daidōji Shinsuke no hansei ("The Early Life of Daidōji Shinsuke", 1925) and Tenkibo ("Death Register", 1926). At this time, Akutagawa had a highly publicized dispute with Jun'ichirō Tanizaki over

552-466: Was meaningless. His aunt Fuki played the most prominent role in his upbringing, controlling much of Akutagawa's life as well as demanding much of his attention, especially as she grew older. The women who appear in Akutagawa's stories, much like his mother figures, were for the most part written as dominating, aggressive, deceitful, and selfish. Conversely, men were often represented as the victims of such women. The final phase of Akutagawa's literary career

576-630: Was popular as a master of ceremonies of TV shows. As an educator, he devoted himself to training an amateur orchestra, Shin Kokyo Gakudan ("The New Symphony Orchestra"). Akutagawa and The New Symphony Orchestra received the 1976 Suntory Music Award . In 1990, the year after Akutagawa died, the Akutagawa Composition Award (now called the Yasushi Akutagawa Suntory Award for Music Composition)

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