In a Grove: Difference between revisions

| title_orig = {{nihongo2|藪の中}} ({{transltransliteration|ja|Yabu no naka}})

''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>

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 <i>''Rashomon</i>''|isbn=9781317574644 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kinoshita |first= Kosuke |date=2020 |editor-last1= Fujiki |editor-first1= Hideaki |editor-last2=Phillips |editor-first2= Alastair |title=The Japanese Cinema Book |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qkXZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |publisher= Bloomsbury |page=91 |chapter=Multi-viewpoint Narrative: From <i>''Rashomon</i>'' (1950) to <i>''Confessions</i>'' (2010)|isbn= 9781844576814 }}</ref>

* A story from the classic Japanese collection "[[Konjaku Monogatarishu |Konjaku Monogatarishū]]": In the 23rd story of the 29th volume—"The Tale of The Bound Man Who Was Accompanying His Wife to [[Tamba Province |Tanba]]"—a man is tied to a tree in a bamboo grove and forced to watch helplessly as his wife gets raped by a young thief, who has stolen all of their belongings.

* ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashōmon]]'' –- Japan 1950, directed by [[Akira Kurosawa]]

* ''[[The Outrage]]'' –- US 1964, directed by [[Martin Ritt]]

* ''[[Iron Maze]]'' –- US 19911987, directed by Hiroaki Yoshida

* ''In a Grove'' –- Japan 1996, directed by [[Hisayasu Satō]]

* ''Misty'' –- Japan 1997, directed by Kenki Saegusa

* ''[[The Outrage (2011 film)|The Outrage]]'' –- Thailand 2011, directed by M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul

* ''[[The Bottomless Bag]]'' –- Russia 2017, directed by [[Rustam Khamdamov]]

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'' |websitepublisher=vinao.comVinao |access-date=10 August 2021}}</ref> It also served, together with two other stories by Akutagawa, as the basis for [[Michael John LaChiusa]]'s musical ''[[See What I Wanna See]]''.

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