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With few other options, many became gaitō kamishibai performers. The new hira-e style of kamishibai did not require extensive training, and almost anyone with a bicycle, a stage, and a voice could set up in the trade. Soon, there were as many as 30,000 street-performers roaming urban neighborhoods throughout Japan.
Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century. Kamishibai were performed by a kamishibaiya (" kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners ...
Carlos Bulosan’s works included THE LAUGHTER OF MY FATHER (1944), THE VOICE OF BATAAN, 1943, SIX FILIPINO POETS, 1942, among others. Alfredo Litiatco published With Harp and Sling and in 1943, Jose P. Laurel published Forces that Make a Nation Great. What happened in the Philippines in 1946 1970?
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in 1937 shows that a third of boys surveyed saw at least two kamishibai shows a day, and some saw as many as six, even though many children were forbidden to watch kamishibai (Kamichi 42). Thus, from a wide variety of perspectives, kamishibai was the ideal medium for conveying propaganda. This is not to downplay the importance of other forms of
century. In the beginning picture books were cultivated in Western countries, but gradually each country began to develop its own world of picture books. The history of kamishibai is thus a little shorter than the history of picture books, but the best works in both genres have something in common in content: they both condense deep meaning and
(4) Kamishibai on the subject of “tonarigumi” and “fujinkai” were produced for the purpose of organizing Indonesians. (5) Kamishibai on the subject of “heiho” and “kaiin yoseijo (seamen's training center)” were produced for the purpose of recruiting Indonesian young men. (6) There were many Kamishibai produced based on actual ...
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Jun 28, 2018 · Kamishibai illustration (collage and painting) from budding artist Bérengère Bossard. Author provided. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, Japanese sweet sellers and storytellers travelled by ...
