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Rashomon
Rashomon can refer to several things:
- The Rashōmon Gate (羅生門 or 羅城門 Rajōmon) is one of two city gates in Heijōkyō/Heiankyō (now Kyoto), Japan.
- Rashōmon is a 1915 Japanese short story written by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.
- Rashōmon is also a 1950 Japanese motion picture by Akira Kurosawa, borrowing the plot from Akutagawa's In a Grove and thematic elements from Rashōmon.
- Rashōmon is also a 1959 Broadway play by Fay and Michael Kanin, produced by David Susskind and based on the Kurosawa film.
See also: Suzakumon Gate, the city's other gate
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