Round 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. A collection of tanka titled for this body part was written by an author who translated The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese, Yosano Akiko. A samurai who reconciles with his ex-wife (-5[1])realizes that this body part of hers is all that remains in a Lafcadio Hearn story adapted in the film Kwaidan. The fact that her victim sold (*) snake meat (10[1])as dried fish is used as justification for appropriating this body part in a story set at an abandoned gate. For 10 points, the narrator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s story “Rashomon” encounters an old woman who steals what body part from corpses? ■END■ (0[1])

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