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Kamishibai is full of happiness; a resonant feeling or kyokan is shared among all the audience during the performance. The word kyokan refers to people confirming the meaning of life together through sharing the same feeling about something.
- Folktales
Hideko Nagano’s warm and humorous illustrations showcase...
- Kamishibai English Translation
This bestselling kamishibai won the 1983 Gozan Prize....
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You can also purchase Kamishibai in Japanese too. *If...
- Peace, Environment
The surprise and excitement of this moment are expressed...
- Science, Learning
The vivid illustrations of insects and visual progression...
- Kamishibai Stage
The stage plays an essentialrole in enhancing the special...
- Daily Life, Events
This kamishibai by Kazuhiko Toyota is sure to answer...
- Folktales
Kamishibai (kah-mee-shee-bye) or “paper drama” is a form of storytelling that began in Buddhist temples in Japan in the 12th century. The monks used e-maki (eh-mah-key) or “picture scrolls” to tell stories with moral lessons to people who were mostly uneducated.
Kamishibai (paper drama) is a traditional form of Japanese storytelling that uses large color pictures to accompany a dramatic narration. This type of storytelling is enjoying a renaissance in Japan and has recently become available in English for use in schools and at home.
- Hira-E: The New Kamishibai
- Published Educational Kamishibai
- Kokusaku (Government Policy) Kamishibai
- Post-War Kamishibai
- The Globalization of Kamishibai
Because of their often sensationalistic content, street performances of all kinds were subject to frequent bans by the authorities, and kamishibai was no exception. In 1929, when tachi-e was undergoing a ban, three street performers in Tokyo (Takahashi Seizō, Gotō Terakura, and Tanaka Jirō) put their heads together to develop a new form of picture-...
In the early 1930s, Japan was suffering from a world-wide depression that sent the unemployed from all walks of life into the streets. With few other options, many became gaitō kamishibai performers. The new hira-estyle of kamishibai did not require extensive training, and almost anyone with a bicycle, a stage, and a voice could set up in the trade...
Without this increase in publishers of educational kamishibai, it is unlikely that Japan’s militaristic government would have called upon kamishibai to play such a pivotal role as a media for propaganda in the build up to World War II. By the beginning of World War II (1941-1945) and middle of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), published kam...
The use of kamishibai for propaganda during World War II made it an object of particular scrutiny when the war ended. General Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Powers were anxious to purge Japan of its former Imperialist ambitions, and kamishibai performers after the war had to get their stamp of approval. Nonetheless, people turned once again in dr...
Perhaps the biggest growth in interest in kamishibai as a format is happening outside Japan. Artists and kamishibai practitioners involved in the tezukuri kamishibai movement have actively been transporting kamishibai to countries throughout Asia and the middle-east to encourage local artists to create their own stories. Gaitō street performance ar...
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.
Kamishibai is a traditional form of Japanese street theatre in the form of picture card storytelling. Unlike children’s storybooks, the text is written on the reverse of illustrated cards so that the story can be easily read while pictures are shown to the students.
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The usual translation of kamishibai is “paper plays.” But I found that telling my colleagues. that I was studying paper plays really didn’t clarify things. It often conjured up for them an image. of Indonesian puppet theater. Instead, I usually resorted to telling them that I was studying a type.
