1. Please have Assignment #3 out and
Ohayo Gozaimasu
Please have Assignment #3 out and
ready to be stamped.

2. Book Group Discussion Discuss 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?

3. What is important about negative space?
Take out your Ikebana drawing.

4. Haiku

5. Japanese Poetry Suggestion Symbols Simplicity Goalmeansresult
Imagination

6. On a withered branch
A crow has settled –
autumn nightfall.
- Matsuo Basho

7. Japanese Poetry Suggestion Symbols Simplicity Goalmeansresult
Imagination
On a withered branch
A crow has settled –
autumn nightfall.
- Matsuo Basho

8. Even stones in streams
of mountain water compose
songs to wild cherries.
- Uejima Onitsura

9. On top of skeletons
they put a gala dress, and then –
the flower-viewing!
- Uejima Onitsura ( )

10. Tanka
“short songs”
5 lines
31 syllables

11. 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

12. Japanese Poetry This perfectly still
Suggestion
Symbols
Simplicity
Goalmeansresult
Imagination
This perfectly still
spring day bathed in the soft light
from the spread-out sky.
Why do the cherry blossoms
So restlessly scatter down?

13. 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

14. 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

15. Tanka Games!!!

16. Tanka How can you tell which ending goes with each beginning?
What are you noticing about the structure of the poems?

17. Classmate poems Randomly draw a classmate’s name.
You will be writing and decorating a tanka poem in appreciation of the positive essence of this person!

18. Classmate poems Think 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.

19. Homework Due next class (Thursday): Complete Novel
Complete Assignment #4
Complete theme chart