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In 2015, as we observe the 70 th anniversary of the end of World War II, the history of kamishibai offers a rare opportunity to reflect on why and how so many different types of kamishibai emerged and flourished during this turbulent time in Japanese history.
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).
Jun 28, 2018 · 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 ...
Jun 14, 2023 · 06/14/2023. Kamishibai means paper play in Japanese and is a traditional storytelling art that was popular during the 1930s and post-war period in Japan but is still performed today. The Kamishibai storyteller, which is called gaito Kamishibaiya, would travel to street corners, park their bicycle, and bang together clapping sticks called ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Introduction to Kamishibai. Kamishibai (Japanese: 紙芝居, "paper theater") is a form of Japanese street theatre and entertainment that flourished from the 1930s and into the post-war period. One type of kamishibai (Gaitō Kamishibai, or "street kamishibai") featured a kamishibaiya (“kamishibai narrator”) who travelled to street corners ...
