Post by Please Delete on Nov 2, 2014 17:48:02 GMT -5
I know many of us are aware of "Japanese Tales" by Royal Tyler, and some have found Konjaku Monogatari or even combed through the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki for tales, but what is there out there on the actual structure of Japanese tales and storytelling? I hadn't really given this much thought until I read a couple of articles on Tofugu. Looking into it further, I think this applies to a wide variety of the arts that people practice, including not only storytelling, but poetry as well. As we are in the Fall Tanka Season, I thought folks may want to think about some of this and how it applies to poetry and storytelling in a Japanese context.
To do that, let's look at Japanese horror stories. Not necessarily the stories themselves, but their structure:
www.tofugu.com/2014/10/30/the-skeletal-structure-of-japanese-horror-fiction/
That article itself, however, references past articles that may be useful, and provide more context:
www.tofugu.com/2014/04/21/why-japanese-and-english-speakers-argue-so-differently/
In the second article it details the Japanese methods of organizing elements to make a point, and much of it, unsurprisingly, comes from earlier poetic forms and the way those build on each other. The Jo-Ha-Kyu(-Zanshin) paradigm is found in martial arts, theater, and music as well as storytelling, for example.
I'm going to keep my eye out for more on this, but I thought others would find it interesting.
-Ii
To do that, let's look at Japanese horror stories. Not necessarily the stories themselves, but their structure:
www.tofugu.com/2014/10/30/the-skeletal-structure-of-japanese-horror-fiction/
That article itself, however, references past articles that may be useful, and provide more context:
www.tofugu.com/2014/04/21/why-japanese-and-english-speakers-argue-so-differently/
In the second article it details the Japanese methods of organizing elements to make a point, and much of it, unsurprisingly, comes from earlier poetic forms and the way those build on each other. The Jo-Ha-Kyu(-Zanshin) paradigm is found in martial arts, theater, and music as well as storytelling, for example.
I'm going to keep my eye out for more on this, but I thought others would find it interesting.
-Ii