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Winners of Akutagawa and Naoki literature prizes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyo Kakuta (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, and Kazushige Abe, winner of Akutagawa Prize, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 13. The prizes, which were named after the novelists Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Sanjugo Naoki, were launched in 1935 to encourage writers.

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Akutagawa's unpublished notes found in Tokyo bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows five unpublished notebook pages written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), one of modern Japan's best known writers. The notes, which had been found in an antique bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district, were apparently part of a collection of tales of folklore, specters, phantoms and ghosts that Akutagawa assembled while he was in high school, researchers say.

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Akutagawa's unpublished notes found in Tokyo bookstore

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows five unpublished notebook pages written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), one of modern Japan's best known writers. The notes, which had been found in an antique bookstore in Tokyo's Kanda district, were apparently part of a collection of tales of folklore, specters, phantoms and ghosts that Akutagawa assembled while he was in high school, researchers say.

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Winners of Akutagawa and Naoki literature prizes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyo Kakuta (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, and Kazushige Abe, winner of Akutagawa Prize, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 13. The prizes, which were named after the novelists Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Sanjugo Naoki, were launched in 1935 to encourage writers. (Kyodo)

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Winner of Akutagawa literary prize attends award ceremony

Novelist Masatsugu Ono, winner of the 152nd Akutagawa Prize for budding authors with his "9 Nen Mae no Inori" (A Prayer Nine Years Ago), smiles at an award ceremony in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2015. The Akutagawa Prize was named after renowned novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa in 1935. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido artist puts painstaking effort into historical figurines

Photo taken March 9, 2016 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, shows tiny clay dolls of historic figures including Ryunosuke Akutagawa (front) made by Mika Takayama, a book illustrator based in Sapporo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido artist puts painstaking effort into historical figurines

Photo taken March 9, 2016 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, shows artist Mika Takayama with her tiny clay dolls of historic figures including Ryunosuke Akutagawa (R in front). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Card signed by Japanese writers Akutagawa, Kikuchi

Photo taken in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2020, shows a paper card signed by Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) on the bottom right and by his friend and author Kan Kikuchi (1888-1948) on the other side. It will go on display for the first time to the public at Tokyo's Tabata Memorial Museum of Writers and Artists from Oct. 2.

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Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Undated file photo shows Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927).

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Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa

File photo shows Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose works include "Rashomon."

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Letter of novelist Akutagawa

Photo taken on Feb. 11, 2019, at Tabata Memorial Museum of Writers and Artists in Tokyo shows a letter that renowned Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote to his friend Kiyoshi Yamamoto in 1916, expressing his love to Fumi Tsukamoto, Yamamoto's niece who would later marry Akutagawa. The letter will be on display at the museum from Feb. 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo of novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The photo was taken in June 1947. (Kyodo)