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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 |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>}}</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 |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)}}</ref>

* A story from the classic Japanese collection "[[Konjaku Monogatarishu |Konjaku Monogatarishū]]": In the 23rd story of the 29th volume—"The Tale Ofof 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.