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A short story written by Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke in 1915. The plot is based on the Japanese classic story collection "The Story of the Past". The work tells the story of a slave under the Rashomon Gate who was waiting for the rain to stop during the twilight period. When he was at a loss as to whether his life or death would be decided, he came across an old woman who made a living by pulling out the hair of dead people. The desperate slave became evil and determined to abandon suffering and follow evil. He took off the old woman's clothes and escaped from Rashomon. The plot of this work is simple, the characters are few, the length is short, and the scenes are small. The time, place, characters, and ending are all displayed in front of the reader. Although the work is a historical novel based on old themes, it is endowed with a certain meaning and describes the people at the bottom of society who are tenaciously struggling to survive. It is not a historical novel in a simple sense.