一人の醜い(みにくい)老婆が、松明(たいまつ)の火の中で死体の髪の毛を抜いている光景

The servant agonized between the reality that he would starve to death if he remained honest, and the intense conflict 'Should I become a thief to survive?' Creeping up onto the tower (second floor) of Rashomon, he witnessed a bizarre scene amidst the countless abandoned corpses: an ugly old woman, under the light of a pine torch, was plucking the hair from a corpse piece by piece.