Урок английского языка по теме "Японская поэзия" 11 класс
методическая разработка по английскому языку (11 класс)

Listening: HAIKU

A country of the rising sun – Japan – gave us a lot of unique things in art.

Take Japanese poetry for instance. Their poems are so short but so full of sense and meanings.

Tanka is a type of poems which have only 5 lines. Its first part gave birth to a separate  type of poems which are even shorter, they have only 3 lines. Nevertheless these lines must have 17 syllables: the first and the third lines have 5 syllables and the second one has 7.

A real master of haiku was Kobayashi Yataro. He is better known by his nickname Issa. Since his mother died when he was a child, he had to live with his father and stepmother as an unloved stepson. So at the age of 14 he was sent away to the capital of Japan – the city of Edo (modern Tokyo). In Edo Issa became a professional poet. He wondered around Japanese provinces, earning his living by writing haiku.

During life time Issa wrote 20 000 haikus. Also he wrote in the janre of haibun – a kind of literature similar to diaries, essays and travel notes. The most significant piece of Issa's haibun writing is "My Spring". We can enjoy Issa's paintings too. They are called haiga and show a combination of poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Issa had haiku down to a real art. He found his own way in poetry. Issa's haiku was inspired by nature and life. It is full of simple and, at the same time, eternal things. It is pierced with common and well-known feelings. His poetry finds reflection in everybody's heart irrespective of the time when you lived.

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1 An Eastern country.

2 The most common topic of Japanese poems.

3 Kobayashi's Yataro's nickname.

4 A Japanese poem which has three lines.

5 Edo's modern name.

ACROSS

5 A Japanese poem which has five lines.

6 A visual art related to writing.

7 A mixture of painting, poetry and writing.

8 A kind of Japanese prose like diaries.

9 The number of syllables in haiku.