Hell Screen

Hell Screen
AuthorRyūnosuke Akutagawa
Original title地獄変 (Jigokuhen)
TranslatorJay Rubin,
Seiji M. Lippit,
W.H.H. Norman,
and others
LanguageJapanese
GenreShort story
PublisherIwanami Shoten Publishing
Publication date
1918
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
1948 (originally)

Hell Screen (地獄変, Jigokuhen) is a short story written by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was a reworking of Uji Shūi Monogatari and originally published in 1918 as a serialization in two newspapers.[1] It was later published in a collection of Akutagawa short stories, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū.[2]

  1. ^ Rubin, Jay. "Chronology." Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories. By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. xi–xvii.
  2. ^ Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū. Ed. Toshirō Kōno. 24 vols. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1995–8.