Summary In more often
R. Akutagawa
In more often
The story of the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske is considered the best in the world story ever written. Several people talk about the murder, everything is different, and it is difficult for the reader to establish what really happened in the thicket of the forest and in the wilds of human relationships.
Here is what the lumberjack told the judge officer.
In the morning in the grove under the mountain he found a corpse. The unknown was killed by the blow of the sword in the chest. Traces of struggle are preserved. Near the corpse was found a rope and a female comb.
Here is what a traveling monk told a judicial officer
He saw the man killed at noon yesterday. He was armed with a sword and a bow and arrows and led along the road a horse, on which sat a woman in a colorful dress. The monk did not see the woman’s face, because it was under the veil.
Here is what the judge official told the guardian
Guardian
That’s what the old woman told the judge officer
The murdered one is the husband of her daughter, a samurai of twenty-six years old named Kanadzawa Takehiro. He has a very mild character. Her daughters, Masago, are nineteen years old. She is bold, not worse than a man. Takehiro was her first man.
In what the robber Tadzemaru confessed
He killed a man. Where the woman has gone, he does not know. He met them yesterday afternoon. A gust of wind lifted the veil from the woman’s face, and she liked the robber. The robber wanted to take possession of this woman, but did not want to kill the man. He enticed strangers into the thicket, saying that he buried there the treasures found once and ready to sell them cheaply. But the woman refused to follow her husband into the depths of
In the depths of the grove, the robber attacked the man and tied him to a tree. Then he went back to the woman and said that her companion had suddenly fallen ill, and she should go see what was wrong with him. The woman took off her wide-brimmed hat with a veil and went after the robber. However, seeing that her husband was tied to a tree, she snatched a dagger from behind her bosom and tried to kill the robber. But Tadzemar could, without taking out his sword, knock out the dagger from her hands and take possession of a woman, without depriving the man of life. When he was about to hide, the abused woman suddenly asked him to kill her husband, because being dishonored in front of two men for her is worse than death. “One of you two must die, and I will go to the one who will live.” The robber, not wanting to kill the bound one, unleashed the samurai and suggested that he fight with swords. They fought for a long time and, finally, The robber killed his rival. But, turning around, I saw that the woman had disappeared, probably ran away to call for help. The robber took the sword, the bow and arrows of the dead man and fled from the thicket. In the clearing he saw a woman’s horse.
What the woman told at the confession in the temple
Having mastered her, the robber turned to her husband and laughed mockingly. She tried to rush to her bound husband, but the robber kicked her to the ground with a kick. In her husband’s eyes, she read unbearable contempt and lost consciousness. When she came to, the robber was gone, but her husband was still tied to a tree. He still looked at her with cold contempt and hatred. She told her husband that, after suffering a shame, he would kill himself, and him, who saw her disgrace. Taking the dropped dagger, she went to her husband to kill him, and after herself. Her husband’s mouth was shut, but she thought he said to her: “Kill.” She killed him, lost the feeling, and when she woke up, she could not decide to commit suicide.
What did the spirit of the prophetess
Having mastered his wife, the robber sat down next to her on the ground and began to console her. The robber told the woman, having lost the purity, it will be difficult for her to live with her husband. Is it better to marry him, a robber? After all, he decided to commit outrage precisely because she liked him. And, finally, raising her head, the wife said: “Well, so lead me wherever you want.” She went after the robber, but suddenly, deadly pale, pointed at the husband tied to the tree and shouted: “Kill him! I can not be with you while he’s alive!” Hearing these words, the robber turned pale, and gazing at her, suddenly kicked it at the fallen leaves. Then he turned to the samurai, and asked what to do with this woman for such words, kill or pardon? Without waiting for her husband’s reply, the woman ran screaming into the depths of the thicket. The robber could not catch up with her. Then he took a sword, a bow and arrows, cut a rope on a man, and fled. Removing the rope from itself, the samurai saw a dagger dropped by a woman, picked it up, and with one stroke pierced his chest. Dying, Takehehiro felt that someone whom he could not see already, crept softly and drew a dagger from his chest. From this he died.
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