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These videos accompany the Kamishibai Scheme of Work in which students are introduced to traditional Japanese folktales and hone their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in the process. The videos can also be used with our additional resources to make kamishibai at home.
Kamishibai (Japanese: 紙芝居, “paper play”) is a long-practiced form of street story-telling in Japan. Our mini kamishibai library offers some of Japan’s most popular stories featuring Japanese-English bilingual narration.
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.
The World Kamishibai Forum was founded in 2019 by Tara McGowan, Donna Tamaki, and Walter Ritter to inspire, instruct, and increase kamishibai activity around the world with videos, webinars, meetings, workshops, and performances.
- 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...
Jan 10, 2012 · Written for a general readership, the book covers the development of kamishibai culture by describing the evolution of the industry, diversities of genre and style, popular characters and creators, and kamishibai’s relation to modern Japanese history.
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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.
