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Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories also known in Japan as Yami Shibai (闇芝居, Yami Shibai, lit. Dark Play) and Theater of Darkness is a Japanese anime series. The first season was directed by Tomoya Takashima, with scripts written by Hiromu Kumamoto and produced by ILCA.
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.
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The Japan Society offers a range of kamishibai resources which can be used to bring traditional Japanese stories to life in your classroom: Digital kamishibai. Physical kamishibai set available for loan. Kamishibai resources for the classroom.
Kamishibai, or paper theater, is a form of storytelling that uses large picture cards. It was wildly popular throughout Japan in the 1930s. Today, it's still enjoyed in kindergartens and...
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).
Age: 5-7 years / 7-11 years. Resource Type: Videos. Kamishibai originates from traditional Japanese street theatre in the form of picture card storytelling. Unlike children’s storybooks, the text for Kamishibai is written on the reverse of cards so that the story can be easily read while pictures are shown to the students.
Kamishibai is a certain number of loose sheets of thick paper that have a drawing on the front and text on the back. A kamishibai is performed by placing the papers into the stage (Butai) in the correct order, facing the children, and sliding out the pages one by one while reading the text.
