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kamishibai became a primary form of propaganda and indoctrination. This paper will briefly explore the history of kamishibai , and in particular, the ideological uses to which kamishibai was put during the prewar and wartime periods. As this history shows, the human connection storytelling creates is a powerful one, and that power is not
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During the wartime era, Kamishibai was used as a military propaganda media by the Japanese government. After Japanese Forces occupied Indonesia, Kamishibai began to be used as a tool for pacifying the local peoples and to force them to cooperate with the Japanese military administration.
- Yuko Momose
- 2002
- A Brief History of Kamishibai
- Paper Play
- Modern Storytellers
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...
The Kamishibai Propaganda Plays are an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan. This digital collection contains 52 Kamishibai plays created between 1938 and 1945, from a private collection of Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh of the UBC Department of Asian Studies.
Sep 14, 2022 · Produced in the 1930s and 40s as wartime propaganda materials, the kamishibai plays in UBC Library’s newest digital collection are owned by Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh, Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture and Head of the Department of Asian Studies at UBC.
