Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Ancient Japan was a weird place as they say in the film Ghost Dog starring Forrest Whittaker. 

This book features quite heavily in that film amongst a few others. I love that film and I just had to read this book from it.
According to this book, it was a foot weird and surreal place. 

Akugtagawa was an incredible writer and he takes you by the hand and leads you on some weird and wonderful journeys. He had an incredible talent and somewhat a sad story of depression, melancholy and in later years madness.

This book is a must-read.