A draft of the world-famous story 'In the Depths of the Forest' (1922), by the Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa, was found in Tokyo, the NHK television channel reported.
The Bonkyo district administration announced that the manuscript was donated to the local authorities.
The story was first called 'A Man's Body' and then 'A Woman's Secret'. The work also had a final part with some explanation of the plot, but the author crossed it out in order, apparently, to preserve the wit and mystery of the narrative.
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