Konjaku Monogatari

Community readers extend the episode's central Rashomon frame back to its source: Kurosawa's film is built on Akutagawa's stories, which themselves draw on tales collected in the Konjaku Monogatari, a twelfth-century Japanese anthology of folk tales. The device the hosts borrow to read the trilogy's competing memories is itself folklore retold, folklore feeding the lens through which folklore is read.