Rashomon

Rashomon can refer to several things:

• The Rashōmon Gate (羅生門 or 羅城門 Rajōmon) is one of two city gates in Heijōkyō/Heiankyō (now Kyoto), Japan.
• Rashōmon is a 1915 Japanese short story written by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.
• Rashōmon is also a 1950 Japanese motion picture by Akira Kurosawa, borrowing the plot from Akutagawa's In a Grove and thematic elements from Rashōmon.
• Rashōmon is also a 1959 Broadway play by Fay and Michael Kanin, produced by David Susskind and based on the Kurosawa film.

See also: Suzakumon Gate, the city's other gate