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- Kishōtenketsu is a Japanese story structure that doesn’t need conflict to work. It’s the guiding structure behind popular urban legends, jokes, comic strips, and even video game design.
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- What Is Kishōtenketsu?
- What Is The Kishōtenketsu Four-Part Structure?
- Kishōtenketsu vs. The Three Act Structure
- Examples of Kishōtenketsu
- Practice Your Own Kishōtenketsu
- Wrapping Up
Kishōtenketsu is a story told in four parts. This kind of storytelling is most closely associated with Japan, but it is also used in classic Chinese and Korean narratives. In fact, it was originally used in Chinese four-line poetry. The plot of a Kishōtenketsu story relies on the third act twist. This is what puts the whole narrative into context. ...
Introduction (ki) The set up of the story. Just like the beginning of a three-act story, here you want to introduce characters, settings, and any other information that’s important to the understanding of your story. Development (shō) Take your setup and expand on it. Tease out the situation, flesh out the characters. You’re giving readers a broade...
The Three Act Structure
Setup Like the introduction and development stages of Kishōtenketsu, the setup establishes characters, settings, and the situation. Read more about setting here. Confrontation This is where you introduce conflict into your story. Usually an inciting event – read more about inciting events here– will disrupt the character’s life in some way. The character will spend the rest of the story trying to overcome that conflict. Resolution In the final act of the story, the character will resolve thei...
Ketsu- How to conclude a story with no conflict
So, how do you conclude a story with no conflict? Well, in the Ketsu portion of the four-act story you can return the characters to where they were before. The twist may create an unresolved tension in the place of a resolved conflict. This is what makes the story interesting to the reader. Go back to our urban legend example. Does the couple strive to accomplish some goal? No, they just have a bizarre thing happen to them. At the end of the story the return home. They’re left to process thei...
Super Mario Level Design Nintendo game designer, Koichi Hayashida, has famously used the Kishōtenketsu structure for Super Mario games over the last decade. Starting with Super Mario Galaxy, on the Wii U, Mario levels conform to the four-part structure. As a player enters a stage they will be introduced to a mechanic. Usually, a way to use some par...
Grab a blank sheet of paper and draw four boxes. Then make your own four-panel comic. Don’t worry if you’re not a great artist. That’s what stick figures are for! Just remember that the third panel needs to introduce a twist. But, don’t overthink it. The twist doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. It can be played for humor like the one above. Or, it ...
If there’s one thing to take away from this post it’s that there is more than one way to tell a story. What Kishōtenketsu teaches us is that you don’t have to have a conflict to tell an interesting story. As a writer, don’t be afraid to explore new formats or to stretch your creative mind. Now, one last time, let’s go over those steps…
Jul 29, 2024 · Explore the Kojiki, Japan's oldest chronicle, detailing creation myths, divine lineage, and early Japanese history, foundational to Shinto beliefs.
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The principal chronicles describing the origins of Japanese history are the Nihon shoki (“Chronicle of Japan”) and the Koji-ki (“Record of Ancient Matters”). The Nihon shoki (compiled in ad 720) assembled information in a chronological order of days, months, and years starting several years before 660 bc, which was the year of the ...
The Ryukyu Kingdom was a monarchy created in 1429 on Okinawa Island, combining the divided kingdoms of Hokuzan, Chuzan, and Nanzan. The kingdom had a great trade with China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. This period is known as the kingdom’s “golden age” and added to its cultural development.
Jul 12, 2019 · While Japan’s oldest work of literature, Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters), was compiled in 712, The Tale of Genji is its most widely read and has been most influential in shaping...
Sep 10, 2023 · Kishotenketsu is a four act story structure that's widely used for years now. With this guide we'll explore what Kishotenketsu really is and how to use it when writing your own stories. Enjoy!
