Haiku (Haibun) Exercise; Princess Mononoke & Anime

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Oops! Your Coffeehouse is on the 21st at 7:00, not the 15th. They moved the date some time ago, but I had an older calendar. Sorry about the confusion. Luckily, this gives you a few more days to procrastinate. Select your piece(s) to read at the coffeehouse. Each student has up to 5 minutes to present their work. This can be a combination of poetry, fiction, plays, performance/spoken poetry, non-fiction, speech, or media. If you are selecting media, you will need to have the files to us a few days before the presentation. You will still have to come up to the podium and address the audience. We will rehearse the show the days before the presentation.

This morning, weather permitting, we will take period 1 to stroll through nature and collect our "narrow road to the Memorial Art gallery" to possibly inspire our writing of haiku (haibun). Your final "draft" should include a non-fiction journal-style entry describing what you did and how you did it and a haiku or two... (One morning I gathered my coat and writing journal and stepped outside..."; "I saw...", "I smelled...(and you did...))" <= joke

When we return to class we will learn about the great Japanese animator (known as the Japanese Walt Disney): Hayao Miyazaki and screen Princess Mononoke.

Japanese Manga: comics or graphic novels conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
The term manga (kanji: æŒ«ç”»; katakana: ăƒžăƒłă‚Ź) refers to both comics and cartooning. Manga as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan.
In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres. Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry and gained a significant worldwide audience. 
Manga are typically printed in black-and-white, although some full-color manga exists and are usually serialized. A manga artist (mangaka) typically works with a few assistant editors in a small studio in a commercial publishing company. Ghibli, for example. If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or during its run. 
You can read some Manga here at this link. We'll take a quick look at Osamu Tezuka's Buddha as a sample of the style. 

 Japanese Anime: is short for animation. But all animation coming out of Japan is referred to as "anime." It is known for its distinct style and use of hand-drawn animation. Also, its weirdness. You can find out more about anime here at this link: A Brief History of Anime.

Sample Anime:

And there are thousands of others...

HOMEWORK: Read Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories (see handout) "In a Grove" and "Rashomon". Together these two stories make up the play/film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa. We'll discuss Japanese cinema more in-depth next class. 

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