Ohayo Gozaimasu• Please have Assignment #3 out and

ready to be stamped.

Book Group DiscussionDiscuss your four topics. You should be able to answer

questions about…• Honor- Is “honor” another

theme in the novel? What is honor? How is the cultural perspective on honor different in Japan than in the United States?

• Relationships- How are relationships between specific characters different (ie. Sachi & Stephen; Sachi & Matsu; Matsu & Sachi, etc). Does this happen in your life? Do you have different types of friendships with different people?

What is important about negative space?

Take out your Ikebana drawing.

Haiku

Japanese Poetry

• Suggestion• Symbols• Simplicity• Goalmeansresult• Imagination

On a withered branchA crow has settled –

autumn nightfall.

- Matsuo Basho

Japanese Poetry• Suggestion• Symbols• Simplicity• Goalmeansresult• Imagination

On a withered branchA crow has settled –

autumn nightfall.

- Matsuo Basho

Even stones in streamsof mountain water compose

songs to wild cherries.

- Uejima Onitsura

On top of skeletonsthey 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 stillspring day bathed in the soft light

from the spread-out sky.Why do the cherry blossomsSo restlessly scatter down?

- Ki no Tomonori

Japanese Poetry• Suggestion• Symbols• Simplicity• Goalmeansresult• Imagination

This perfectly stillspring day bathed in the soft lightfrom the spread-out sky.Why do the cherry blossomsSo restlessly scatter down?

The clustering clouds – Can it be they wipe away The lunar shadows?Every time they clear a bitThe moonlight shines brighter.

- Minamoto no Toshiyori

When I went to visitThe girl I love so much, That winter nightThe river blew so coldThat the plovers were crying.

- Ki Tsurayuki

Tanka Games!!!

Tanka

• How can you tell which ending goes with each beginning?

• What are you noticing about the structure of the poems?

Classmate poemsRandomly draw a classmate’s name.

You will be writing and decorating a tanka poem in appreciation of the positive essence of this person!

Classmate poemsThink about the essence of this person.

You are welcome to write more than one.

Use tanka form: try to connect to nature.

Hand in next class!

Decorate beautifully.

Homework

Due next class (Thursday): • Complete Novel• Complete Assignment #4• Complete theme chart