Most earlier anthologies tend to be out of print or difficult to find except in libraries. All those listed here contain stories not included in the present volume. Individual stories mentioned in the Introduction are noted along with other titles of particular interest.
The Essential Akutagawa, ed. Seiji M. Lippitt (New York: Marsilio, 1999). Contains “Tu Tze-chun” (“Toshishun”), “Kesa and Morito” (“Kesa to Moritō”), “The Faint Smiles of the Gods” (“Kamigami no bishō”), “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” (“Aru kyūyūe okuru shuki”), “Autumn Mountain” (“Shūsanzu”)
Exotic Japanese Stories, tr. Takashi Kojima and John McVittie (New York: Liveright, 1964). Contains “Kappa” (“Kappa”), “The Lady, Roku-no-Miya” (“Roku-no-miya no himegimi”), “The Badger” (“Mujina”), “Heresy” (“Jashūmon”, the unfinished sequel to “Hell Screen”), “The Handkerchief” (“Hankechi”), “The Dolls” (“Hina”), “A Woman’s Body” (“Nyotai”)
The Heart is Alone, ed. Richard McKinnon (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1957). Contains “Flatcar” (“Torokko”), “A Clod of Soil” (“Ikkai no tsuchi”)
Hell Screen and Other Stories, tr. W. H. H. Norman (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1948). Contains “Heresy” (“Jashūmon”, the unfinished sequel to “Hell Screen”)
Japanese Short Stories, tr. Takashi Kojima (New York: Liveright, 1961). Contains “A Clod of Soil” (“Ikkai no tsuchi”), “The Tangerines” (“Mikan”)
Kappa, tr. Geoffrey Bownas (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1971, 2000). Contains “Kappa” and a lengthy introduction
Rashomon and Other Stories, tr. Takashi Kojima (New York: Liveright, 1952, 1999). Contains “Yam Gruel” (“Imogayu”), complete translation of “Dragon” (“Ryū”), “The Martyr” (“Hōkyōnin no shi”)
Rashomon and Other Stories, tr. Glenn W. Shaw (Tokyo: Hara Shobo, 1964). Essentially a reissue of Tales Grotesque and Curious
The Spider’s Thread and Other Stories, tr. Dorothy Britton (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1987). Contains “Tu Tzechun” (“Toshishun”), “The Art of the Occult” (“Majutsu”), “Flatcar” (“Torokko”), “The Dolls” (“Hina”), “The Tangerines” (“Mikan”)
Tales Grotesque and Curious, tr. Glenn W. Shaw (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1930). Contains “Tobacco and the Devil” (“Tabako to akuma”), “Lice” (“Shirami”), “The Handkerchief” (“Hankechi”), “The Wine Worm” (“Shuchū”)
The Three Treasures, tr. Takamasa Sasaki (Tokyo: Hokuseido, 1951). Contains “Tu Tze-chun” (“Toshishun”), “The Art of the Occult” (“Majutsu”)
Cavanaugh, Carole, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: An Abbreviated Life (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, forthcoming)
Hibbett, Howard S., “Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and the Negative Ideal,” in Personality in Japanese History, ed. Albert M. Craig and Donald H. Shively (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970), pp. 425– 51
——, “Akutagawa Ryūnosuke,” in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (New York: Scribner’s, 2001), pp. 19– 30
Keene, Donald, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1984), pp. 556– 93
Lippitt, Seiji M., “The Disintegrating Machinery of the Modern: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Late Writings,” Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (1999), pp. 27–50
Yu, Beongcheon, Akutagawa: An Introduction (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972)