Once his mother could not take care of him, his father named Niihara Toshizo, saw no better alternative than to send the writer to an aunt’s house to be educated. His ability to write was seen in a very short time when he began to excel in school for his stories, it also impacted his attraction to reading, among his preferences stood out Chinese poetry, japanese fiction.
He graduated with honors from the school and entered the prestigious Imperial university graduating from her with very good grades specializing in English literature. Precisely when he was finishing university he wrote his most important work, which would make him famous much later, it would be Rashomon.
After finishing his university degree, his phase as a writer begins and for this he has as a mentor Natsume Soseki who helps him in his work Hana, one of the stories that gave him public recognition. A few years later he would start working in one of the most influential newspapers of that time called
Mainichi ShimbunThrough this newspaper he was able to expand his culture since he was sent to Korea and China, thus he was able to expand his horizons and have new ideas for his works.
But Ryunosuke Akutagawa had a serious problem, his mental health was not adequate, he had inherited that problem from his mother and would start with serious personality problems, many times because of his attacks they had to medicate him to take him to a psychiatric center.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a fairly intelligent man, he married quite young but the mental problems he had brought him many conflicts with his family life. This, added to heavy debts inherited when an uncle died, led him to make the worst of decisions, which was that of commit suicide. At the age of 35 a July 24, 1926 he ingested a large number of pills ending his life immediately.