Rashomon - Definition and Overview

Rashomon can refer to several things:

• The Rashomon Gate (羅生門 or 羅城門 Rajomon) is one of two city gates in Heijyokyo/Heiankyo (now Kyoto), Japan.
• Rashomon is a 1915 Japanese short story written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
• Rashomon is also a 1950 Japanese motion picture by Akira Kurosawa, borrowing the plot from Akutagawa's In a Grove and thematic elements from Rashomon.
• Rashomon 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