Akutagawa

Through the fluttering of his heart he recalled Akutagawa-san's one bit of advice: to take a daydream and ride it home.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

It seems to me that the Akutagawa is a real hit or miss prize, which is too bad since it’s considered to be one of the most important and prestigious ones.

Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Tsui no sumika 2010

Oolong (ã ‚ ¦ ーロン) (July 28, 1994 †January 7, 2003), named after the oolong variety of tea, was the name of a domestic rabbit owned by photographer Hironori Akutagawa.

It\’s true | My[confined]Space 2009

Oolong was a well known Internet phenomenon, through a large number of photographs posted by Akutagawa on his website.

It\’s true | My[confined]Space 2009

In response, Akutagawa wrote in a message to website visitors: Some visitors have written me e-mails, accusing me of being cruel to my rabbit and that I am abusing my pet.

It\’s true | My[confined]Space 2009

Oolong attracted attention because Akutagawa had trained the rabbit to balance objects on his head, an art called “Head Performance” by his owner.

It\’s true | My[confined]Space 2009

In the story, the night sky has two moons and though it is a work of fiction at the same time, there is a mixture of elements that are easily relatable to specific groups (such as the Red Army, Yamagishism, Aum Shinrikyo, Jehovah's Witnesses) or events in the real word such as when they gave the Akutagawa Prize to a young woman writer (Lisa Wataya or Hitomi Kanehara?) etc.

Global Voices in English » Japan: ‘1Q84′, the new bestseller by Haruki Murakami 2009

Soon, Akutagawa had the rabbit balance a variety of things on his head, including tea cups, bread, fruit, pancakes (actually dorayaki), and even a rabbit skull.

It\’s true | My[confined]Space 2009

I have always liked the Akutagawa story. jeff vandermeer says:

Weirdies, Weirding On… 2010

Ry? nosuke Akutagawa, short story writer who committed suicide young

Dead hard disks in Japan 2008