List of Works

"Rashomon"

"The Nose"

"A Day in the Life of Oishi Kuranosuke"

"Absorbed in Letters"

"From Withered Fields"

"Death of a Christian"

"Autumn"

"The Ball"

"Christ in Nanking"

"Lechery"

"In a Bamboo Grove"

"Words of a Dwarf"

"The Early Life of Daidoji Shinsuke"

"Cogwheels"

"The House of Genkaku"

(not a complete list)

"Then stealthy footsteps came up to me.  I tried to see who it was, but the darkness had closed in all around me.  Someone - that someone gently pulled the dagger from my chest with an invisible hand.  Again a rush of blood filled my mouth, but then I sank once and for all into the darkness between lives." - from the testimony of the dead man, "In a Bamboo Grove"

"I plan to write this story in a single sitting tonight in time for the deadline I'm facing tomorrow.  No, I don't 'plan' to write it: I absolutely have to write it." - narrative intro to "Green Onions"

translations by Jay Rubin