[KineJapan] Rashomon question

[bobsummers]

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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
> Dear colleagues,
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> 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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