That’s why it’s often used more for exploring themes, as the elucidation at the last point creates a sense of continuation, rather than an ending or conclusion in the traditional 3-act structure. If you know you are reading Kishotenketsu narratives, you know that you will taken for a swindle, an unexpected turn, whereupon it being elucidated brings the whole story into view. It creates a sense of discovery and exploration. It is a narrative that pulls apart reality and then soft-lands it after explaining how the it all fits together. Instead of tension existing in the narratives, it creates tension in the reader. Twist (ten): Throughout history, generals (daimyōs) killed the enemy with bows and arrows.Ĭonclusion (ketsu): The daughters of Itoya kill with their eyes.Īs you can see, the ‘Ten’ has to create an ‘okay? what? where is this going?’ feeling. Introduction (ki): Daughters of Itoya, in the Honmachi of Osaka.ĭevelopment (shō): The elder daughter is sixteen and the younger one is fourteen. The classic example by poet Sanyo Rai is: It is only explained in the Ketsu (the reconciliation, 4), that explains how this ‘Ten’ (3) relates to it. The ‘turn’ in Kishotenketsu, however, is a deliberate scene that you won’t understand in context of the introduction (1) and development (2). eg: Darth Vader being Luke’s Father (spoiler, in case you aren’t alive). A twist as most readers understand is an unexpected direction. Some blogs specifies this as a ‘twist’, which isn’t entirely true as we, in Western literature, understand it. The core part of Kishotenketsu is the ‘turn’ or ‘change’. It’s a 4 act structure, broadly, composed of the following steps: Kishotenketsu on the other hand, primarily deals with themes and uses a unique narrative structure for it. The key is mostly: some characters dealing with limitations and trying to overcome it. Chuck Wendig describes stories starting from a change in the status quo. James Scott Bell’s LOCK plot structure (Lead, Objective, Confrontation, Knockout), describes it as characters going through a door of no return.
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