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Intro. to Japan

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Valerie Baalerud

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What role do you think geography has played in the history of Japan?

In the Beginning...

Almost

Review:

  • What are some important geographic features of Japan?
  • What was the influence of outside countries on early Japan?
  • World's FIRST full-length novel
  • 54 Chapters - Separate Books
  • Love, travel, intrigue, heroism
  • Importance

http://www.taleofgenji.org/

Flash Foward!!

I am first with five

Then seven in the middle --

Five again to end.

http://teacher2b.com/creative/haiku1.htm

http://www.howmanysyllables.com/index.html

http://www.hwbrands.com/haiku.htm

Nippon, "Land of the Rising Sun"

Japan

Why does Japan refer to itself as the "Land of the Rising Sun"?

Izanagi & Izanami

Japan's Creation Myth

Geography of Japan

Natural Dangers

  • Typhoons
  • Volcanic Eruptions
  • Earthquakes
  • Tsunami
  • Thousands of Islands - Archipelago
  • Islands lie on the Ring of Fire
  • 1/25th the size of the United States
  • 3/4 of land area covered in mountains
  • 4 well defined seasons

March 11, 2011

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/10_largest_world.php

20/20 ABC News Story

Early Japan

  • Migrated from Asian mainland
  • Distinct culture
  • Kami: Nature spirits
  • Shinto: "Way of the Kami"
  • Yamato Clan Legend

The Tale of Genji

Foreign Influence

  • Contact with China and Korea by mid-500s
  • Borrow ideas, create own unique culture
  • Korea becomes "middle-man"
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Art & Architecture
  • Heian Period

Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Prince Shotoku

Heian Period

  • A split world
  • Courtlife
  • Role of Women
  • Literature

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arth17/Genji.index.html

Haiku

"The world in a water droplet"

  • Close observation with a moment of reflection
  • Able to evoke imagery and emotion
  • Descriptive - sharply focus on a detail of nature or everyday life
  • Personal - meaningful

A giant firefly:

that way, this way, that way, this--

and it passes by.

  • Form & Structure:
  • Very short - 3 lines
  • 17 syllables
  • 5-7-5
  • 2 parts - break making two separate statements
  • "Kigo" - clue (word/phrase) describing the season
  • Snapshot of everyday life
  • "A brand new experience of a well-known situation"

Resources:

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/can-you-haiku

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

--Issa (1762-1826)

Medieval Japan

(1100s)

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/can-you-haiku

  • Changes - General
  • Literature

Tokugawa

snow mixes with rain—

my mother keeps calling me

by my brother's name

Paul David Mena

Let's try it!

*See Google docs for Haiku Assignment

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