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‘Rashomon’ (The Raju Gate); Hana’ (The nose); ‘Yabu no Naka’ (In the Bamboo); ‘Kirishitohoro Shonin Den’ (A Legend from the Life of Christ); ‘Torokko’ (The Truck); and ‘Niwa’ (The Garden).

It was a great regret to the Japanese nation that this young writer took his own life on the 24th of July, 1027. His suicide came as a great loss to Japanese literature.