[KineJapan] Rashomon question

[Dolores Martinez]

Sorry, I hadn’t seen this from Lorenzo. Samurai, of course, were initially
the servants of the emperor, but you are correct that we tend to assume
that the husband is a warrior/samurai (bushi) rather than some sort of
minor bureaucratic official, however, early on I believe they could be
both. Since Rashomon is set in the 12th century, just when the samurai were
beginning to amass political power, I guess it’s a rather blurred line.
Now I feel that I need to listen once again to the Japanese in the film to
double check! Lola

On Friday, 26 March 2021, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> There seems to have been   a problem with this message from Lorenzo, so
> I’m forwarding it here.
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> Markus
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> From: Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:29:44 +0000
> Subject: Doubt on RASHÔMON
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> I’m contributing to Japan Foundation Spain, with a colleague, on a course
> on *Rashômon*. 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”?
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> In most of the synopsis you can find he is a samurai, but in Akutagawa’s
> homonymous tale he is a “public servant”.
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