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By Yoav Rosen. Translated by: Takashi Kojima. I t was a chilly evening. A servant of a samurai stood under the Rashōmon, waiting for a break in the rain. No one else was under the wide gate. On the thick column, its crimson lacquer rubbed off here and there, perched a cricket.
Rashōmon (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku.
Summary. After a series of recent calamities hits the city of Kyōto, a servant seeks shelter from the rain under the deserted Rashōmon, Kyoto's southern gate. Having just been let go by his master, a samurai, he has no place to go.
Nov 1, 1999 · 羅生門 by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Rashōmon, short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, published in Japanese in 1915 in a university literary magazine. The story, set in 12th-century Kyōto, reveals in spare and elegant language the thoughts of a man on the edge of a life of crime and the incident that pushes him over the brink.
Plot. In Heian-era Kyoto, a woodcutter and a priest, taking shelter from a downpour under the Rashōmon city gate, recount a story of a recent assault and murder. Baffled at the existence of conflicting accounts of the same event, the woodcutter and the priest are joined by a commoner.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story, “Rashōmon,” originally published in 1916, is a fictional story that details a man on the brink of death who must decide between maintaining his morals and dying or becoming a thief to save his own life.
