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In prewar street kamishibai, each episode would have 10 to 15 cards that were typically hand painted on one side with handwritten scripts or notes on the back. Most performers would be told the plot at the kashimoto (lenders) they rented the plays from and bring their own interpretation to the story.
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Each episode was animated to mimic the kamishibai method of story-telling. The series is organized into a collection of shorts with each episode being only a few minutes in length. Each episode features a different tale based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin.
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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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In many ways kamishibai was a precursor to manga and anime and undoubtedly influenced. manga and anime. Kamishibai is a sequential art form and it is the sequencing of the images that. instills the drama into kamishibai. Image sequencing is an integral part in the narrative structure of.
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Japanese arts. Popularized in the 1950s in Japan, discover the kamishibai, this small traveling theater where storytellers tell stories using multiple boards inserted into a wooden frame. When one thinks of Japanese theatre , it is very often Kabuki or Noh theater that first comes to mind.
Kamishibai is a powerful, non-digital medium of communication that was invented in Japan. It combines aspects of Japanese theatrical and storytelling traditions with early cinematic media techniques from abroad.
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.
