Packet 3: Tossup 15

It’s not skin, but a poet declared that God gave her this body part “To punish / Men for their endless sins.” In a story from the anthology Flesh-Colored Horror, this body part kills a woman and hides in her attic after gaining sentience. (15[1])A samurai (-5[1])who reconciles with (15[1])his ex-wife (15[1])realizes that this body part of hers is all that remains in a (15[1])Lafcadio Hearn (-5[1])story adapted in the film (15[1])Kwaidan. A collection of tanka (-5[1])titled for this body part (15[1]-5[1])was written by an author who translated The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese, Yosano Akiko. The fact that her victim sold (*) snake meat as dried (10[1])fish is used as (10[1])justification (10[1])for appropriating (10[1])this body part in a story set (10[1])at an abandoned gate. For 10 points, the narrator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s story (-5[1])“Rashomon” encounters an old woman who steals what body part from corpses? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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