1915/01/01
CharactersCharacter count5,098
Word count2,498
Unique words · 534 once
799 Unique kanji · 256 once
504Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length31.7
Difficulty Expert
Dialogue5.4%
Duration
<1 hRatingExternal Rating
62 %大正期に活躍した「新思潮派」の作家、芥川竜之介の代表的な短編小説。初出は「帝国文学」［1915（大正4）年］。短編集「羅生門」［阿蘭陀書房、1917（大正6）年］に収録。羅生門の下に佇んでいる「下人」が死体から髪を抜き取っている「老婆」と出会う話。芥川文学の原点として注目されており、高校国語教科書に現在も採用されている。原典は「今昔物語集」巻二十九第十八とされる。
Japanese study overview
Rashoumon is a Japanese novel of 5,098 characters, with 799 unique words and 504 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 799 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 下人low-rank person×44
- 事thing×28
- 云うto say×28
- 老婆old woman×28
- 上above×18
- 門gate×16
- 死骸(dead) body×14
- 男man×11
- 梯子ladder×9
- 羅生門Rashōmon (gate in old Kyoto)×8
- 死人corpse×8
- 雨rain×8
- 饑死(death from) starvation×8
- 鴉crow (Corvus spp.)×5
- 楼tower×5
- 雨やみbreak in the rain×4
- 面皰pimple×4
- 棄てるto throw away×3
- 木片block (of wood)×3
- 火fire×8