<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 26, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" class="">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">There seems to have been a problem with this message from Lorenzo, so I’m forwarding it here. <div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Markus</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">From: Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano </span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:29:44 +0000</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">Subject: Doubt on RASHÔMON</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div lang="ES" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word;" dir="auto" class=""><div class="m_-1369807922390621779WordSection1" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif" class="">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif" class="">I’m contributing to Japan Foundation Spain, with a colleague, on a course on <i style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif" class="">Rashômon</i>. I just wanted to bring one apparent secondary doubt: the man who is killed, is a public servant or a samurai? Is it both, taking in mind the etymology of the word “samurai”, “saburau” or “server”?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif" class="">In most of the synopsis you can find he is a samurai, but in Akutagawa’s homonymous tale he is a “public servant”.</span></p></div></div></div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13" class=""><b class=""><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/uc?id=1i0izwlsrcSvQgU4nMCzTLiOhmdDMm-xZ&export=download" width="56" height="96" class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13" class=""><b class="">Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small" class=""><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace" class=""><font color="#38761d" class=""><b class="">Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div><div class=""><font size="1" color="#38761d" class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" class="">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace" class="">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace" class="">School of Art & Design</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small" class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#6aa84f" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d" class=""><b class="">Department of Film, Television and Media</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d" class=""><b class="">6348 North Quad</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d" class=""><b class="">105 S. State Street</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d" class=""><b class="">Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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