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Mar 24, 2018 · The 50s are considered to be Kamishibai’s golden age: around 3 000 Kamishibaiya (紙芝居屋, kamishibai narrator) were performing in the streets of Tokyo, and around 50 000 in the whole country! The narrators would mount the Kamishibai butai on the luggage carrier of their bicycles and go perform on the streets.
Nov 18, 2017 · IKAJA Kamishibai Seminar in Tokyo, 2017. Theme: "Let Peace Shine with Kamishibai" Dates: 18 November (Sat.) - 19 November (Sun.) 2017 Place: Kichijoji Tokyu REI Hotel, Tokyo "PROGRAM" 18 November 2017 Welcome: Greeting by Kyoko Sakai, and Everybody Clap! Following in the Footsteps of Noriko Matsui 1.Encounter with Kamishibai 2.Creating Kamishibai
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From the 1920s to the early 1950s, Japanese sweet sellers and storytellers travelled by bicycle from town to town, village to village, drawing large, young audiences. Kamishibai men would secure their butai – a wooden structure, half picture frame, half theatre stage – to the back of their bicycle, and would use wooden clappers (hyoshigi) to beckon...
Kamishibai performances and workshops are popular in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany, South America and the US. The storyboards can introduce audiences to folktales from Japan – such as the Hats for the Jizos. Or for European audiences, they might focus on tales from closer to home, such as The legend of the fir treefrom Alsace – a cultural ...
Kamishibai is an extremely versatile and entertaining tool, which explains why schools in many countries have adopted it in the classroom. It offers an integrated approach not only to learning or revising, but also to drama and visual art. So it’s not really surprising then that more and more kamishibai stories are available in several languages– a...
Kamishibai is actually a relative newcomer to the etoki tradition in Japan, and, as kamishibai artists and historians, Kata Kōji (1971) and Kako Satoshi (1979) have argued, the only precursor that can be traced unequivocally to the development of kamishibai is the 18 th century magic lantern show or utsushi-e.
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Published kamishibai (I recommend “The Three Magic Charms” and “The Old Man and the Fox” for a start. Other recommendations appear at the end.) Kamishibai stage (It is also possible to make stages or perform without the stage, but the stage is well worth the investment.) Large paper for mapping out stories (2 per group)
