【無料】やさしい日本語で『羅生門』を読もう【N3 読解テキスト】

✅ N3レベルで理解できる『羅生門』(芥川龍之介)

✅ 単語や文法の解説

One day in the evening, it was raining.

A man is waiting for stopping the rain under the gate which is called Rashoumon.

At that time, there were only that man & a bug.

This is because the number of people were declining by many recent disasters.

And also this area was poor because of that, and Rashomon gate was becoming very dirty.

In the Rashomon gate, some wild animals live, bad people live, and some dead body were left.

Therefore, there was nobody except for that man now.

Instead of that, there were a lot of crows.

I think crows eat dead bodies in the Rashomon gate.

A while ago, I said “a man is waiting for stopping rain.”

However, he doesn’t have to do even if it stops rain.

Actually, he just has lost his job these days.

When people don’t have a job, they cannot have money.

And when people don’t have money, they cannot live.

Therefore, he thinks that he should get to be a thief.

The man was getting sleepy.

He doesn’t have money, so he doesn’t have home either.

He was looking for the place to sleep tonight.

He looked around, and found the steps to top of the Rashomon gate.

He thought that “I think there were nobody on top of the Rashopmon gate because there were a lot of dead bodies,” then, he climb.

When he climbed the Rashomon gate, he found a person there.

He was surprised and look at that person secretly.

There were a lot of dead bodies indeed.And it smelly.

There was an old woman between dead bodies.

She wore brown Japanese clothes, she was short, and she had white hair.

She was staring at the face of a dead body.

The man was afraid and surprised. But he kept looking at her.

Then, that old woman tried to take hair from the dead body one by one.

The man was very terrified.

But he gradually gets to be angry.

And also, he had completely no idea why she was taking hair.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

The old woman was very surprised because she was not aware to be seen by someone.

She answered, “I am thinking about making a wig from this hair.”

She kept speaking. “It may be a bad thing to take hair from the dead body, but, the people who were left their body must be bad people. So they won’t be mad at me.

The man was thinking while she speaking.

After that, he decided to be a thief

He said that “Well, you are also a bad person, so don’t be mad at me!”

And then, he stoled her brown clothes, and go away.