芥川龍之介
His interests in Japanese ancient mythology and history, as found in the Kojiki and Nihon-shoki, inspired him to write "Ame-no-Uzume" (Op.4). Also he was interested in Japanese traditional music, Gagaku and he wrote treatises, such as "Japanese Traditional Instruments" and "The research of Japanese traditional music and the conversion into my work". He loved the work of novelist Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. He left a notebook in which he was composing his new work, Opera, "The Spider's Thread" by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa when he died.