羅生門
By 芥川龍之介
In a Kyoto ruined by earthquake, fire and famine, a servant who has lost his place shelters from the rain under the decaying Rashomon gate and wonders whether he must turn thief to live. Akutagawa's short story of 1915, drawn from a medieval collection of tales, turns on what he does when he climbs to the tower where the unclaimed dead are left.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.