Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale

Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale
Author	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Original title	竜 (Ryū)
Translator	Takashi Kojima, Jay Rubin
Language	Japanese
Genre	Short story
Publisher	Iwanami Shoten Publishing
Publication date	May 1919
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	1952
Media type	Print
Pages	18

Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale (竜, Ryū) is a short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was first published in a 1919 collection of Akutagawa short stories, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū (芥川龍之介全集).^[1] The story is based on a thirteenth-century Japanese tale,^[2] with Akutagawa's Taishō literary interpretations of modern psychology and the nature of religion.^[3]

^ Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū. Ed. Toshirō Kōno. 24 vols. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1995–8.
^ A Collection of Tales from Uji: A Study and Translation of Uji shūi monogatari. Ed. D.E. Mills. Cambridge: U of Cambridge P, 1970
^ Rubin, Jay. "Translator's Note." Preface. Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories. By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. xli–li.

[1] Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū. Ed. Toshirō Kōno. 24 vols. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1995–8.

[2] A Collection of Tales from Uji: A Study and Translation of Uji shūi monogatari. Ed. D.E. Mills. Cambridge: U of Cambridge P, 1970

[trans-3] Rubin, Jay. "Translator's Note." Preface. Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories. By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. xli–li.

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