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Kickoff your review of Curt Stories by Ry?nosuke Akutagawa: In a Grove, the Nose, Dragon: the Old Potter'south Tale, Autumn Mountain, Hell Screen, Rash?mon

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Zenchi Naigu, a Heian menstruum Buddhist priest, is more concerned with diminishing his overly long, dangling nose than he is with studying and teaching the sūtras[5]. He pretends to ignore his olfactory organ in fright information technology volition be mentioned, and studies religious texts in a desperate endeavor to find a person with a nose similar his. When in individual, he constantly checks his olfactory organ in a mirror, hoping for fifty-fifty the smallest amount of shrinkage.

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Zenchi Naigu, a Heian menstruum Buddhist priest, is more concerned with diminishing his overly long, dangling nose than he is with studying and pedagogy the sūtras[5]. He pretends to ignore his olfactory organ in fright information technology will be mentioned, and studies religious texts in a desperate attempt to notice a person with a nose like his. When in private, he constantly checks his olfactory organ in a mirror, hoping for even the smallest corporeality of shrinkage.

One autumn, a disciple reveals he has learned a new technique to shrink noses from a friend, a Chinese doctor who has become a high-ranking priest at the Chōrakuji temple in Kyoto. At first, Naigu feigns disinterest, to appeal to the misconception that he is unconcerned with his olfactory organ[5], but eventually "gives in" to his disciple's insisting[5]. The disciple first boils the nose, then stomps on it, finally removing the beads of fat the treatment extracts from the nose. To Naigu'south satisfaction, the nose, once dangling past his chin, is now the size of a typical hooked nose.[3]

Naigu, excited but nervous, sets about his weekly routines. He is surprised, however, to find the people he encounters laughing at him far more openly than they had before. Naigu becomes bitter and harsh, to the point where one disciple proclaims: "Naigu will be punished for treating us so harshly instead of teaching usa Buddha'south Law"[5]. People continue to laugh at Naigu for his vanity, until one solar day, Naigu wakes up, and to his relief and rejoicing, his olfactory organ has returned to its original length...:)))))

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Smashing miniatures! Only the Akutagawa spirit is lacking...

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