Gates of Rashomon ( 羅 生 門 ) - the story of the Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa , written by him in 1915 .
| Rashomon Gate | |
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| 羅 生 門 | |
| Genre | |
| Author | Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
| Original language | Japanese |
| Date of writing | 1915 |
| Date of first publication | |
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Story
Kyoto is in decline - over the past two to three years, various disasters have hit the capital: earthquake, hurricane, fire, famine and pestilence. There was no one to follow the order; thieves and robbers appeared on the streets.
A certain servant, left homeless over his head, decides to wait out the rain under the gate of Rashomon . He is tormented by thoughts about how to live on: to die of hunger or go to steal. In the tower of the gate the servant sees a burning fire and decides to rise there.
A servant enters the tower and sees countless corpses of corpses lying on the floor, and among them is an old woman who pulls the hair of a dead woman. Subsequently, the servant finds out some interrogations that she needs the hair of the dead to create wigs . The old woman explains to him that she takes hair only in order to survive, and that there is nothing wrong with her act. After her words, the servant decides to earn a living by theft. Evil grins at the fact that he, too, needs not to starve to death, he forcibly takes away the kimono from the old woman and disappears into the night.
Films
- Rashomon ( Japanese羅 生 門, 1950) - dir. Akira Kurosawa
Links
- " Rashomon Gate " on the site " Fantasy Laboratory "