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Overview: Japanese Paper Theater ( Kamishibai) In Japan, the tradition of storytelling with art dates back as early as the 9th century when Japanese Buddhist monks would use storytelling scrolls to teach religious stories and lessons to an illiterate public. During the Edo period of peace, and onto the Meiji period, picture storytelling shifted ...
Sep 2, 2023 · TOKYO BAY, JAPAN: On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan officially surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II. By the summer of 1945, it had become ...
Kamishibai is a form of picture storytelling that evolved in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the coming of World War II, it became one of the most widely used mediums for propaganda, targeting both children on the homefront and newly colonized nations. This paper examines some of the types of wartime kamishibai, and the ideologies of the warrior code and the "nationstate ...
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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. This traditional storytelling form evolved over the centuries into the use ...
Most simply, a kamishibai play is a set of pictures used by a performer to tell a story to an audience, usually of children aged four to twelve. During Japan’s Fifteen Year War (1931–1945), however, kamishibai was a crucial medium for the [End Page 78] dissemination of propaganda to a variety of audiences, adults as well as children. 1 The ...
