Talk:Rashomon (short story)

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Akutagawa Ryunosuke says "Akutagawa wrote no full-length novels" and talks of Rashomon as a "short story". Is it a novel, or isn't it? I know the film, and seem to remember reading that it's based on a short story, but don't know anything for sure. --Camembert

Going by Ghost Dog, where the book is a minor plot point, "Rashomon" was the lead title given to a book of short stories. Whether it was originally released as such, I can't say. At any rate, it's probably not a novel, if you trust Jim Jarmusch. Graft

It's a short story

Ryunosuke's Rashomon (remember he wrote in the early half of the 20th century) is the story described by this article (the gate where bodies are abandoned). Confusing issues is the '50 Kurosawa film given the same title (I seem to recall that the court scenes take place outside the Rashomon, which refers in both works to a specific gate). Kurosawa's film is based off the short story translated as In A Bamboo Grove. There have been recent anthologies (judging from Amazon.com) of Ryunosuke's short stories under the title "Rashomon," and I have a recently printed anthology (whose cover I don't recognize in the entries on Amazon) under this title as well. I read it for a recent course focusing in part on Japanese Modernism. If anybody requires an ISBN number, I'll dig it up. --Edwin Herdman (talk) 22:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)