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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, trans. Jay Rubin. "In a Bamboo Grove" from Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories . London: Penguin Books, 2006.
Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke. "In a Bamboo Grove." Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories. Translated by Jay Rubin, Penguin Classics, 2006, pp. 75–86.
Hornaday, Fred. “Bamboo Symbolism in Mythology and Folklore.” Bambu Batu , 7 Oct. 2019, https://bambubatu.com/bamboo-symbolism/.
Murakami, Haruki. Introduction. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories , by Akutagawa, Penguin Classics, 2006, pp. 25–47.
Rubin, Jay, editor. Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories . Penguin, 2019.
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