Summary Of Temple By Tajomaru

Most of the characters in the story have ambiguous tales, but the statement of the woman who has come to the Shimizu temple, also known as the wife of the murdered man, is one of the most controversial. Based on the information from the testimonies of the dead husband and Tajomaru, its deduced she was violated in some way by Tajomaru. She goes through traumatic events that make her account untrustworthy. For example, she gives a radically, contradicting detail about her husband on page 5, “Beneath the cold contempt in his eye, there was hatred. Shame, grief, and anger...I don’t know how to express my heart at that time”. Contrary, her mother, describes her son-in-law “of gentle disposition, so I am sure he did nothing to provoke the anger of

He is a robber and is also suspected to be the a killer in a previous crime. After he claims he fought the husband to the death, he is steadfast in his emotions and says he is ready for the maximum penalty from the police. Tajomaru is erratic because he is controlled by single desires that consume his mind in seconds. Tajomaru first saw the couple in the afternoon and he says, “That may have been one reason; she looked like a Bodhisattva. At that moment I made up my mind to capture her even if I had to kill her mind” (2). His resolve to kill a man for a girl was made after a glimpse of her face when the wind briefly blew her scarf. In addition, when Tajomaru concocted a plan that did not require the death of the husband, he decided it was good enough to leave him tied to a tree. But when the wife asks him to kill the husband, he says, “Then a furious desire to kill him seized me” (4). A mere request enveloped his mind into one thought and destroyed his resolve to keep the man alive. Tajomaru is not reliable because he does not think of the consequences of his actions and lives only in the present second. The capriciousness and fickleness of his character make his testimony unreliable. Tajomaru was the first to claim responsibility for the murder of the husband. His narrative adds suspense to the plot and readers are sitting on the edge of their chairs, biting their nails, and fervently reading on to find