Reputation, family & tradition, pride, respect, and eduucation
100
What was His best known techniques?
Symbolisms & allusions
100
How did the time influence Akutagawa?
Economic downturn and natural disasters
200
What is his original surname
Niihara
200
What was the Taisho Era influenced by and what was it called
Japan Jazz Age, American Culture
200
What are important values in Russian & Friends
Knowledge, celebration, Friendship ties & family bonds, Generosity, patriotism
200
What culture did he often include in his writing?
Christian writing, China and Russia
200
What themes did he wrote mostly on?
Love and guilt
300
Akutagwa's Family's name
A Tokyo native, Akutagawa was born in the historic, multicultural Kyobashi (Shitamachi/Irifunecho), to Fuku Niihara (mother) and Binzo Shinhara (Toshizo Niihara - father)
300
What were important aspects/ideas at the time?
(name as many as you can)
Honor & Pride
Self sacrifice for the greater good
Many proletarian & modernist literature
General increased awareness of literature outside of Japan
Modernism; deals with old traditions being outdated & the experimentation of new expressions due to the rapid changes of the world
300
What are important values in Japan culture?
Harmony, family, age, honors, orders
300
What was Akutagawa acknowledged for?
His use of macabre theme
300
What was he heavily influenced by
Modernism
400
Who gave him the name Akutagawa?
His maternal uncle, Michiaki Akutagawa, adopted him, giving him the surname Akutagawa.
400
How does the time and era depict the symbolism of a nose?
How is it presented in Akutagawa's stories?
A nose is pretty much an equivalent of a Western characteristic. In Akutagawa's stories such as "The Nose" the nose (symbolic os westernization) is thought of as a negative factor.
400
Japan culture and Chinese/Vietnamese culture overlap?
Geography, culture ideas,
400
What time/era was his stories often set in?
12th & 13th century
400
What was his best work set as?
Fable
500
What was Akutagwa's Dad's Occupation
Dairy merchant
500
Why is Da K^2
Because D+V=B
500
Overlaps between Japanese culture and Russian culture
Family & honour
500
How does his overall techniques along with modernism affect his stories?
It Enabled the reader and audience to understand the comparison between past periods, and the era in which they live in.
500
What two genres did he incorporate into his story?