KishÅtenketsu
Kishōtenketsu (Japanese起 承 転 结) denotes a rhetorical and narrative structure in Japanese texts ( essays, scientific texts, novels, Manga, etc.), and speeches.
Its origin has them. Jueju in the four -part poems in classical Chinese literature In Chinese, such a structure qǐ chéng zhuǎn hé (Chinese起 承 转 合/起 承 转 合) is called.
Kishōtenketsu refers to a structure of four conceptual sections:
- Ki, the introduction as a representation of the topic,
- Shō, the development on the continuation of the topic,
- Ten, the turn as a surprising element that only indirectly has a nexus or connection with the subject,
- Ketsu, the closing of all the elements together leads and draws a conclusion.
In Japanese rhetoric, this means that the core thesis is called only at the end, the intention of the speaker is displayed delayed between crop up pieces of information have only loosely related to the general theme and the closing remarks at the end of a chain of statements that not strictly follow one direction. Hinds referred to this as a quasi- inductive discourse.
As a simple example of these four phases is often the following folk song (俗 謡, sokuyō ) given by Rai San'yo:
In the first verse, Ki, the daughters of Garnhändlers are first introduced as a topic and then delivered in the second verse, Shō, details about both. The third verse ten, then digresses into a seemingly off-topic example. The final and the gist of the text follows then in the fourth stanza, Ketsu, representing that the daughters with their eyes seduce men, equal to the custom of the princes to kill people.