Rashōmon (short story)
1915 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rashōmon (羅生門) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.
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Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
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Original title | 羅生門 |
Translator | Ivan Morris |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Genre | Short story |
Publisher | Teikoku Bungaku |
Publication date | 1915 |
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The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950) is in fact based primarily on another of Akutagawa's short stories, "In a Grove"; only the film's title and some of the material for the frame scenes, such as the theft of a kimono and the discussion of the moral ambiguity of thieving to survive, are borrowed from "Rashōmon".