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{{Short description|1922 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa}}
{{Infobox book
| name = In a Grove
| title_orig = {{nihongo2|藪の中}} ({{
| orig_lang_code = ja
| translator = Takashi Kojima<br />[[Jay Rubin]]<br />James O'Brien
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==Publication history==
''In a Grove'' first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the monthly Japanese literature magazine ''[[Shinchō]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature |last=Yamanouchi |first=Hisaaki |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, New York, Melbourne |year=1978 |page=197 |isbn=0-521-21856-X }}</ref>
==Translations==
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==Influences==
Akutagawa's influences for this story may have come from several different sources:<ref>{{cite book |last=Walls |first=Jan |date=2016 |editor-last1= Davis |editor-first1=Blair |editor-last2=Anderson |editor-first2= Robert |editor-last3=Walls |editor-first3=Jan |title= Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ebXhCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 |publisher= Routledge |page=11 |chapter=From Konjaku and Bierce to Akutagawa to Kurosawa: Ripples and the Evolution of
* A story from the classic Japanese collection "[[Konjaku Monogatarishu
* "[[The Moonlit Road]]" by [[Ambrose Bierce]]: a short story about the murder of a woman, as told by her husband and herself (through a medium), and introduced by their son.
* "[[The Ring and the Book]]" by [[Robert Browning]]: a narrative poem based on the true story about a murder told 12 different ways.
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==Adaptations==
''In a Grove'' has been repeatedly adapted into films, including:
* ''[[Rashomon
* ''[[The Outrage]]''
* ''[[Iron Maze]]''
* ''In a Grove''
* ''Misty''
* ''[[The Outrage (2011 film)|The Outrage]]''
* ''[[The Bottomless Bag]]''
The story was adapted into an opera titled ''Rashomon: The Opera'' (1995–99) by [[Alejandro Viñao]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vinao.com/Rashomon_synopsis.html |title=''Rashomon: The Opera'' |
In 2012, Spanish author and illustrator [[Víctor Santos (author)|Víctor Santos]] combined ''In a Grove'', ''Rashomon'' (the other Ryūnosuke Akutagawa short story which the 1950 film was named after), and the legend of the [[forty-seven rōnin]] into one graphic novel adaptation titled ''Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case''. The first part of the graphic novel, Rashomon, faithfully retells ''In a Grove'', with protagonist Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi investigating the death of the samurai Takejiro Kanazawa by interrogating the witnesses (including the victim's mother-in-law who had been adapted out of the film version), the prime suspect Tajōmaru, the victim's widow, and Kanazawa through the medium. The section ends with Kobayashi unable to determine who and what had killed the samurai, whose widow remarries by becoming [[Kira Yoshinaka|Kira Kozukenosuke]]'s second wife, and Tajōmaru being executed soon after the investigation.
The second part of the graphic novel, Seppuku, takes place three years later with Kobayashi now investigating the aftermath of Kozukenosuke's death at the hands of [[Asano Naganori|Asano Naganomi]]'s forty-seven loyal [[rōnin]].
''Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case'' was first published in Spanish in 2012, with the English version published by [[Dark Horse Comics]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Santos |first=Víctor |date=October 18, 2017 |title=''Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case'' |publisher=Dark Horse Comics |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/28-126/Rashomon-A-Commissioner-Heigo-Kobayashi-Case-HC}}</ref>
==In popular culture==
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The seventh episode of ''[[R.O.D the TV]]'', titled ''In a Grove'', deals with a similarly confusing mix of truth and lies, reality and pretense.
== See also ==
* [[Unreliable narrator]]
* [[Rashomon effect]]
==References==
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[[Category:Works originally published in Shinchō]]
[[Category:Kyoto in fiction]]
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