Q: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
The protagonist of one of this author's stories erects a sign near a pond claiming that on the third day of the third month, the title creature will ascend to heaven. Another of his works sees a figure in paradise acknowledge that a sinner did a singular good deed by sparing the life of an insect in one of his works. That work by this author sees the Buddha lower the titular object to hell to allow Kandata to climb out. A servant steals a woman's clothes after witnessing her pluck hairs of a corpse under the titular gate in one work by this author of "Ryu" and "The Spider's Thread", who also wrote a work that opens with the testimony of a woodcutter who has found a dead man in the titular location. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of such short stories as "Rashomon" and "In a Grove".
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Literature