Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Born: March 1, 1892
Died: July 24, 1927 (aged 35)
Bio: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.
Known for:
- Rashōmon (1915)
- Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
- Hell Screen (1918)
- In a Grove (1922)
- Kappa