Quotes from book
In a Grove

Name: In a Grove
Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke AkutagawaOriginal title 藪の中 (Japanese, 1922)

"In a Grove" is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning movie Rashōmon.

“Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning.”

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa book In a Grove

In a Grove (1922), quoted in A Study Guide for Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove" https://books.google.it/books?id=EAPQDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 (Gale, 2017).

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