[KineJapan] Rashomon question

[Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano]

Thanks, Lola, that’s a very good point, I mean, thinking that it is both. In fact, it makes sense with the period, end of Heian’, as an era that is fading, but also the fading of the serving function, in front of the arising of the warrior level…

Please, tell me of you see (listen) to it again.

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De: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> En nombre de Dolores Martinez via KineJapan
Enviado el: viernes, 26 de marzo de 2021 14:16
Para: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
CC: Dolores Martinez <dm6 at soas.ac.uk>
Asunto: Re: [KineJapan] Rashomon question

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<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:
There seems to have been   a problem with this message from Lorenzo, so I’m forwarding it here.

Markus



From: Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:29:44 +0000
Subject: Doubt on RASHÔMON
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”?
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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