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Please have your Assignment #1 and Chart #1 out ready to be stamped. Ohayo Gozaimasu. Facing your Literature Circle. 15 minutes: review your assignments with one another. I would like each of you to share your findings and knowledge of your subject.
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Please have your Assignment #1 and Chart #1 out ready to be stamped. Ohayo Gozaimasu
Facing your Literature Circle • 15 minutes: review your assignments with one another. I would like each of you to share your findings and knowledge of your subject. • Ensure your name and assignment # (1A, 1C, etc. ) are on it. • Have your chart out • Stay on task
Book Group Discussion You should be able to answer questions about…….. • What are the four major Japanese festivals? • How are we seeing loneliness in the novel? What is the cause of loneliness? Is there a cure? • What do we mean by emotional landscape in the book? How does this relate to the physical landscape? (Hint: think about Sachi’s garden, Matsu’s garden, the storm, etc) • What can you say about the author’s writing style?
Look at this Ikebana arrangement of flowers. What do you notice? Can you sketch the essence?
Which do you like better? • Why?
“Nature does not happen; it is wrought (made).” From “The Essence of Japan” by Donald Richie “The arrangement is not only in the branches, the leaves, the flowers. It is also in the spaces between.”
“Wood is carved with the grain so that the natural shape can assert itself. … the Japanese carpenter finds the shape within the tree. Or, within the rock, for stone too has grain, and this the mason finds, chipping away to reveal the form beneath.”
“As the single finger bends the branch, so the social hand inclines the individual. If the unkempt tree is not considered natural, then the unkempt life is equally out of bounds.”
How can we apply the concept of negative space to our novel? • What is not being said? • What is not being revealed, portrayed, understood.
Japanese Poetry • Suggestion • Symbols • Simplicity • (Goal, means, result) • Imagination
On a withered branch A crow has settled – autumn nightfall. - Matsuo Basho
Even stones in streams of mountain water compose songs to wild cherries. - Uejima Onitsura
On top of skeletons they put a gala dress, and then – the flower-viewing! - Uejima Onitsura (1660-1738)
Tanka • “short songs” • 5 lines • 31 syllables • 5-7-5-7-7
This perfectly still spring day bathed in the soft light from the spread-out sky. Why do the cherry blossoms So restlessly scatter down? - Ki no Tomonori
The clustering clouds – Can it be they wipe away The lunar shadows? Every time they clear a bit The moonlight shines brighter. - Minamoto no Toshiyori
When I went to visit The girl I love so much, That winter night The river blew so cold That the plovers were crying. - Ki Tsurayuki
Classmate poems Think about the essence of this person. I welcome you writing even more than one. Write it in tanka form. It’s even cooler if it connects with nature Needs to be in my hands by next week Thursday. Decorate these beautifully.
Homework • Read to page 113 • Book Group Project #3 is due the second class period after break- get started? UP to you! Sleep, rest, nap, meditate, chill out, do nothing, zone out, be zen, sleep late, snooze in, eat.