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By 1933, she had organized a troupe of performers called the “Kamishibai Missionaries” (kamishibai dendō dan) and had co-founded the Kamishibai Publishing Company (kamishibai kankō kai). Imai made several significant innovations to the kamishibai format.
Kamishibai is part of a long tradition of oral folk literature in Asia. In Japan, as early as the twelfth century, the recitation of stories with accompanying pictures was used in temples to explain Buddhist deities and relate the histories of the temples.
In 1929, three kamishibai ( tachi-e) street performers got together and invented a new kind of kamishibai, inspired by the latest global medium, silent film. This kamishibai (called hira-e or “flat pictures”) is the card format that most people know as kamishibai today.
Sep 21, 2022 · The group turned into a kamishibai organisation with the formation of the International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA) in 2001. IKAJA didn’t just focus on keeping the traditional art alive within Japan’s 6,852 islands; it shared kamishibai with the world.
In particular, late-era kamishibai, devoid of samurai but in search of underclass heroes to oppose feudal order, focused on peasant assassins unmentioned in the Japanese history books: the infamous Pariah Elite known as ninja (see Wainscot Societies).
Kamishibai (kah-mee-shee-bye) or “paper drama” is a form of storytelling that began in Buddhist temples in Japan in the 12th century. The monks used e-maki (eh-mah-key) or “picture scrolls” to tell stories with moral lessons to people who were mostly uneducated.
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In this video, professional storytellers Fergus and Mio explain the benefits of teaching kamishibai and how it can be linked with Art, Music, English and Drama lessons as well as increasing students’ cultural awareness.
