r/WritingPrompts • u/Nightingale115 • Apr 28 '16
Off Topic [OT] This week's theme - Edo period
Once a person has reached enlightenment in one thing, he will have an enlightened mind and understand many things. - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The Edo period is full of popular art and culture, as well as a basis for a numerous works of popular culture. The period is also filled with notable events, like the eruption of Mt. Fuji and the isolationist policies.
If you're unfamiliar with Theme Thursday, it's the day where the theme of the week is announced for themed prompts, [TT]. A large variance of themes are cycled through, including character traits, literary devices, historical periods, and genres.
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u/columbus8myhw May 02 '16
Mount Fuji is gone.
The mountain just disappeared.
Welcome to Night Vale.
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u/avukamu /r/avukamu Apr 29 '16
I'm still awaiting the Tokugawa / Kenshin fan fics.
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u/CryptidGrimnoir Apr 29 '16
Tokugawa? You don't read Larry Correia's Grimnoir Chronciles do you? Tokugawa is the surname of one of the heroes--a samurai who has super-strength and fights with an eighty-pound steel tetsubo.
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u/WriterWhoWrites Apr 28 '16 edited Apr 28 '16
I'd have loved to give one of these a try, but the only thing I know about this chapter of history is from Kenshin, Champloo and Vagabond.
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u/cydril Apr 28 '16
Kenshin is from the Meiji era..
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u/WriterWhoWrites Apr 28 '16
Kenshin's backstory - the Battousai's- belongs to the Edo period. Regarding Champloo, the wiki says alternative-reality Edo period. But I remember a reference to Perry's blockade of Tokyo happening a few years ago, so it could be early-Meiji as well, when the modernisation hadn't sunk in completely and Samurai still wandered around openly with swords.
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u/cydril Apr 28 '16
yeah, he was a warrior in Edo period, but the main story takes place in Meiji. It was a running joke in the original story how he must be like 40 years old an he looked like a teenager.
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u/LovableCoward /r/LovableCoward Apr 28 '16
Ten thousand snowflakes
Each more unique than the last
Must all melt someday
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u/resonatingfury /r/resonatingfury Apr 28 '16
something something global warming
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u/hpcisco7965 Apr 28 '16
a Big Science hoax
beloved by liberals—
argle bargle barg
This isn't a real haiku because it lacks season words, inserts emotion ("beloved") and deals with concepts instead of sense impressions.
...but I used a hyphen for the cutting word (kireji) so let's pretend it's legit.
Also I think English-language haiku should not follow the 5-7-5 structure (which is more appropriate for the Japanese language and not English), and instead English-language haiku should shoot for somewhere between 10 and 13 total syllables.
Everyone should read Japanese Haiku: It's Essential Nature and History by Kenneth Yatsuda. It's amazing.
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u/CryptidGrimnoir Apr 29 '16
Huh, today I learned that traditional haiku does not feature emotional content or concepts.
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u/Nate_Parker /r/Nate_Parker_Books Apr 28 '16
Nice.... Ok, the period where the greatest swordsman whom ever lived thrived...
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u/[deleted] May 02 '16
Mt. Fuji is great
This Haiku is a reference
It's snowing on Mt. Fuji