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In an ironic twist, this quite recent development in the history of kamishibai may account for the prevailing misconception that kamishibai is an ancient storytelling form because so many folktales are set in an indeterminate Japanese mukashi, or “long ago,” past. Folktale classics like “Issun-bōshi” (The One-Inch Boy), “Kasa Jizō ...
Figure 3–Street kamishibai in the 20 th century (The Kamishibai Classroom, p. 6) From the 1930s until the 1950s, kamishibai was the most popular form of entertainment for children, so much so that when television came to Japan in the 1950s, it was referred to as “denki kamishibai” (electric kamishibai).
Kamishibai in its current form became popular during the 1920s, reaching its peak in the 1950s with more than 3,000 storytellers in Tokyo alone. Each day, the kamishibai man would make the rounds of various neighborhoods on a bicycle with about three different stories. Stopping at a convenient corner, he would announce story time by beating on ...
It became especially popular during the 1920s because of the growth of the silent film industry, which was actually narrated in Japan, and took on the characteristics of silent film dialogue and stage set aesthetics. Kamishibai became so popular that television was first called “electric kamishibai.”
One Hundred Years of Japanese Kamishibai: Development and Popularity of the Paper Theater Prof. Dr. Aki Nishioka (Ritsumeikan University) In my presentation, I will introduce the history of the kamishibai (“paper theater”) using rare photographs and texts and seek to explain its popularity and importance in the cultural history of Japan.
Aug 22, 2014 · Kamishibai (pronounced kah-me-she-bye) is a form of Japanese storytelling that involves illustrated story cards and a small, portable stage (you can also perform without the stage). It’s colorful, dynamic, simple, and absolutely intended to be enjoyed by an audience. Kamishibai dates back to 1930, when men (and some women) would ride around ...
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The basic structural nature of kamishibai is montage, a visual technique that was enormously popular in modern(ist) consumer culture and much theorized in cinema and art in the 1920s and 1930s. 27 Kata Kōji, one of kamishibai’s pioneers as both a practitioner and theorist, reports that in the 1930s, as the medium was developing on both the ...
