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紙芝居の演じ方（Kamishibai no enjikata) is a useful guide book written by Noriko Matsui, published by Doshinsha. The English version, Howt to Perform Kamishibai Q&A translated by Etsuko Nozaka & Kara Yamaguchi, published by Doshinsha is also available by contacting IKAJA. The sales price is 1470 yen. (translated in Spanish, Basque ...
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What's Kamishibai. Kamishibai was born in Japan around 1930,...
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Mar 24, 2018 · Kamishibai 紙芝居. Kamishibai (紙芝居) is a form of Japanese street entertainment and theatrical performance. The name Kamishibai literally means “paper drama” (紙 kami, meaning “paper”, and 芝居 shibai meaning “play” or “drama”). The performers tell a dramatic story while showing drawings or paintings at the crowd.
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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...
Oct 6, 2019 · IKAJA. The International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA) Terakoya, 3-32-15-1F, Inokashira, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-0001 Japan. kamishibai@ybb.ne.jp. (IKAJA) in Japanese. (World Kamishibai Day) Welcome to The International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA). Kamishibai is a part of Japan's unique cultural heritage that is moving ...
*First broadcast on December 29, 2020. 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 ...
Kamishibai is actually a relative newcomer to the etoki tradition in Japan, and, as kamishibai artists and historians, Kata Kōji (1971) and Kako Satoshi (1979) have argued, the only precursor that can be traced unequivocally to the development of kamishibai is the 18 th century magic lantern show or utsushi-e.
Kamishibai: Japanese Storytelling. 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. As creating and using Kamishibai hones ...
