Akutagawa wrote there is no good-length novels, focusing instead on the short story as his main medium of expression. When you took his short life, he wrote complete 150 short stories, including The Nose, ''The Spider's Thread, A Hell Screen, Autumn, A Ball, In a Grove, and Kappa. Akira Kurosawa directed the film Rashōmon'' (1950) based on Akutagawa's stories; the majority of the action in the film was actually an adaptation of In a Grove.

Akutagawa was natural inside Tokyo, the boy of the milkman (Toshizoo Makino). His mother (Fuku Niihara) went harebrained shortly when his birth, thus he was adopted & raised by his enatic uncle, from either whom he had a last name. He began writing fallowing typing Tokyo Imperial University in 1913, where he exposed English Literature. He supported himself by teaching English and editing a newspaper. At that instance he published his short story Rashōmon (1914), which earned him the praise and encouragement by Natsume Soseki, and started The Nose, which would be finished only a couple of years later. It was too at this instance that he began writing haiku under the haigo (or even pen-title) Gaki.

Piece however a student he proposed marriage to the childhood friend, Yayoi Yoshida, however his adoptive personal did non approve the union. Witharound 1916 he became engaged to Fumi Tsukamoto, whom he married in 1918. It got trey tykes, Hiroshi (1920), Takashi (1922) and Yasushi (1925).

Inside 1921, at the crest of his popularity, Akutagawa interrupted his writing career to spend tetrad months around China, as a reporter for the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun. A hike was trying & he suffered from either either various complaint, from which his health would never recuperate. Shortly fallowing his go to he published his best known tale, Around the Grove (1922).

Towards a prevent of his life, he began suffering from either ocular hallucinations and nervousness. Within 1927 he tried to take his have life, together by having a friend of his married woman Fumi, however the attempt failed. He eventually committed suicide (by taking an overdose of Veronal) on July 24, 1927, saying 　ぼんやりとした不安 (''Bon'yaritoshita fuan'', meaning "dim uneasiness"). Inside 1935, his lifelong friend Kikuchi Kan established Japan's most prestigious literary award, a Akutagawa Prize, in his honor.

Works
老年 (Rōnen) 1914 羅生門 (Rashōmon) - Rashōmon 1915 鼻 (Hana) - A Nose 1916 芋粥 (Imogayu) - Yam Gruel 1916 煙草と悪魔 (Tabako to Akuma) 1916 戯作三昧 (Gesakuzanmai) 1917 蜘蛛の糸 (Kumo there are no Ito) - A Spider’s Thread 1918 地獄変 (Jigokuhen) - Hell Screen 1918 邪宗門 (Jashūmon) 1918 魔術 (Majutsu) 1919 南京の基督 (Nankin there are no Kirisuto) - Christ inside Nanking 1920 杜子春 (Toshishun) - Tu Tze-chun 1920 アグニの神 (Aguni there is no Kami) 1920 藪の中 (Yabu there are no Naka) - Around the Grove 1921 トロッコ (Torokko) 1922 玄鶴山房 (Genkakusanbō) 1927 侏儒の言葉 (Shuju there are no Kotoba) 1927 文芸的な、あまりに文芸的な (Bungeiteki na, amarini Bungeiteki na) 1927 河童 (Kappa) - Kappa 1927 歯車 (Haguruma) - Geared wheel 1927 或る阿呆の一生 (Aru Ahō there is no Isshō) - ''The Fool's Life 1927 西方の人 (Seihō there are no Hito) - A Human of the West'' 1927