[KineJapan] Rashomon question

Sun Mar 28 14:24:12 EDT 2021

Dear Mª José, this and the first email are very interesting, thanks. We have good material to reflect on!

In fact, you touch something I had already noticed, and that I reminded to my colleague: that Kanazawa is not a coward in the fight, no matter how much Tajomaru's violence makes him very cautious, and several times, wields his sword to take down the bandit.

By your name maybe you can speak Spanish, in case you’re interested, here you have the first class session (of two; on 7 April will be the second): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMkFvJbDRU4&t=2771s Its has been banned in some countries as I use video fragments (Youtube…!), in case it is your case, please, tell me and I can give you a link to my Onedrive -or to anyone who is interested and can understand Spanish.

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De: KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> En nombre de Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan
Enviado el: sábado, 27 de marzo de 2021 17:45
Para: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>
CC: Maria Jose Gonzalez <tkarsavina at yahoo.com>
Asunto: Re: [KineJapan] Rashomon question

Shortly after I sent my previous message, I started thinking about Kyoto’s Aoi Matsuri,  which serves as a parade of Heian Fashion,  and realised that Rashomon’s Kanazawa must be a 検非違使 (kebiishi), a 武官 position that combined the duties of a judge and a policeman.
After a search for Akutagawa in my library, one book confirmed that Kanazawa’ s job in Akutagawa’s story is indeed that of 検非違使
(See attachment)

María José

On Saturday, 27 March 2021, 04:50:04 PM GMT+9, Maria Jose Gonzalez via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

Interesting question.
See my observations on this character, written rather casually but with some visuals, in the attached pdf file.

María José González Muñoz
Kwansei University
Nishinomiya, Japan

On Friday, 26 March 2021, 10:02:54 PM GMT+9, 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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