Premium Content A Cross Cultural Examination of Rashomon
By Anonymous - January 15, 2000
In 1915, during the Taisho period of Japanese history, native Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa created a collection of short stories entitled Rashomon and Other Stories. The progenitor of the modern Japanese short story form, Akutagawa's collection of allegorical sketches transcends the limits of social, moral, and lingual constructs and has…
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