Rashomon
羅生門
芥川竜之介 · Japanese
Beneath the rotting Rashomon gate of famine-stricken Kyoto, a dismissed servant must choose between starving honestly and stealing to live — and meets…
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Beneath the rotting Rashomon gate of famine-stricken Kyoto, a dismissed servant must choose between starving honestly and stealing to live — and meets an old woman doing far worse. Akutagawa's brutal 1915 debut.
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芥川竜之介
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) was a Japanese writer and the master of the modern short story in Japanese. Rashōmon, In a Grove and The Spider's Thread rework old tales into studies of self-interest and unreliable truth. He took his own life at thirty-five, citing a vague unease about the future, and Japan's foremost literary prize carries his name.
Rashomon
羅生門
芥川竜之介 · Japanese
Beneath the rotting Rashomon gate of famine-stricken Kyoto, a dismissed servant must choose between starving honestly and stealing to live — and meets…
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ある日の暮方の事である。一人の下人が、羅生門の下で雨やみを待っていた。 広い門の下には、この男のほかに誰もいない。ただ、所々丹塗の剥げた、大きな円柱に、蟋蟀が一匹とまっている。羅生門が、朱雀大路にある以上は、この男のほかにも、雨やみをする市女笠や揉烏帽子が、もう二三人はありそうなものである。それが、この男のほかには誰もいない。 何故かと云うと、この二三年、京都には、地震とか辻風とか火事とか饑饉とか云う災がつづいて起った。そこで洛中のさびれ方は一通りではない。旧記によると、仏像や仏具を打砕いて、その丹がついたり、金銀の箔がついたりした木を、路ばたにつみ重ねて、薪の料に売っていたと云う事である。洛中がその始末であるから、羅生門の修理などは、元より誰も捨てて顧る者がなかった。するとその荒れ果てたのをよい事にして、狐狸が棲む。盗人が棲む。とうとうしまいには、引取り手のない死人を、この門へ持って来て、棄てて行くと云う習慣さえ出来た。そこで、日の目が見えなくなると、誰でも気味を悪るがって、この門の近所へは足ぶみをしない事になってしまったのである。 その代りまた鴉がどこからか、たくさん集って来た。昼
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Beneath the rotting Rashomon gate of famine-stricken Kyoto, a dismissed servant must choose between starving honestly and stealing to live — and meets an old woman doing far worse. Akutagawa's brutal 1915 debut.
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芥川竜之介
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) was a Japanese writer and the master of the modern short story in Japanese. Rashōmon, In a Grove and The Spider's Thread rework old tales into studies of self-interest and unreliable truth. He took his own life at thirty-five, citing a vague unease about the future, and Japan's foremost literary prize carries his name.
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