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Kamishibai shōwa shi(A Shōwa [1926-1989] history of kamishibai), 2004. McGowan, Tara. The Kamishibai Classroom: Engaging Multiple Literacies through the Art of ‘Paper Theater.’ California: ABC-CLIO Press, 2010.---. Performing Kamishibai: An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience. New York: Routledge Press, 2015. Nash, Eric.
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Aug 22, 2014 · Kamishibai dates back to 1930, when men (and some women) would ride around Tokyo on bicycles with wooden boxes mounted on the back. Inside the box was a kamishibai stage, story cards, and drawers full of candy.
Jun 14, 2023 · 06/14/2023. Kamishibai means paper play in Japanese and is a traditional storytelling art that was popular during the 1930s and post-war period in Japan but is still performed today. The Kamishibai storyteller, which is called gaito Kamishibaiya, would travel to street corners, park their bicycle, and bang together clapping sticks called ...
Kamishibai may be best known today as one of the direct precursors of postwar manga and anime, 3 but over its forty-year heyday it enjoyed enormous popularity, at times eclipsing rival entertainment media for children such as movies or radio (in the 1930s and early 1940s) and manga (in the 1950s).
great waves of street kamishibai (gaitō kamishibai) in the 1930s and 1940s; the emergence of educational kamishibai (kyōiku kamishibai – also called insatsu kamishibai, or “printed kamishibai”); and the important role that kamishibai played in Japanese education after the war.
A kamishibai was a frame mounted on the back of a bicycle, coincidentally equivalent in dimensions to a modern flat-screen TV. The story-teller would ride to a spot in a park or street, summon the local children with a clapperboard, and tell a story using a sequence of a dozen single full-colour images, slotted in and out of the frame.
