Credited to someone else at an NHK companion site.
"Kamishibai encyclopedia" from street picture-story show materials
The November 2019 issue of street performer Toshiaki Ueshima's "Street Performer Asia Monthly Report" has been sent. Among them, Mr. Ueshima's article on the street Kamishibai (picture-story show) is interesting. It is said that the Yokohama City Historical Museum regularly performs a picture-story show. In 2010, the same museum held an exhibition titled "Ogami Shibai Exhibition: Reviving Showa Street Culture." There is also a pictorial record.
The article introduces facilities for street Kamishibai (picture-story show) collections in various parts of Japan. When I think of Kamishibai (picture-story shows), I think of Koji Kata's Showa History of Kamishibai (Rippu Shobo, 1971, later Obunsha Bunko and Iwanami Gendai Bunko). I am deeply moved by the fact that it is preserved as a resource in various places.
When I was looking at a nearby library, I came across a book called "Kamishibai Encyclopedia" (planned and produced by Kamishibai Bunka no Kai, Doshinsha, 2017). Kamishibai, a unique form of Japanese culture, has now taken over from street picture-story shows to kindergarten picture-story shows, and then to published picture-story shows, and is said to have spread to 46 countries and regions worldwide. Among the authors are the poet Arthur Binard and the picture-story show and picture book author Hideko Nagano.
The History of modern Kamishibai is quite interesting.
In 1930, the modern day Hirai-E Kamishibai was created as a hand-drawn street picture-story show by Japanese hands. The street picture-story show was a tool to attract people to sell candy. In 1935, there were about 2,000 street picture-story shows in Tokyo. In the 1940s, war propaganda picture-story shows became popular. After the war, the street picture-story show revived from the burnt ruins. Around 1950, it is said that there were 50,000 street picture-story shows nationwide. Publication of educational picture-story shows began in the post-war cultural movement. Around 1960, with the advent and spread of television, street picture-story shows declined.
Doshinsha, the publisher of "Kamishibai Encyclopedia", is primarily known as a publisher of children's books and picture books, but in fact, the company was founded in 1957 as a publisher of kamishibai, and has created a flow of published kamishibai works. As street kamishibai began to decline, it was around this time that published kamishibai began to be rented out at public libraries. This "Kamishibai Culture Association" was born in 2001, and as of October 2019, it is said that there are 958 members in Japan and 50 countries overseas.
Kamishibai has changed from street kamishibai to national policy kamishibai to educational kamishibai, but how has a Kamishibai picture been drawn? It was hand-drawn at first, then printed, according to the chronology. Someone told me that there is such a picture-story show site. It is the "Kamishibai Net" of Nagoya Ryugi Junior College Early Childhood Education Research Institute, and the "History of Kamishibai" in it.
In 1934 (Showa 9 in this chronology), it is written that "Kenya Matsunaga, who incorporated picture-story shows into the extracurricular education of the University of Tokyo Settlement, created a mimeograph-printed picture-story show 'Life Guide'. There were picture-story shows that were mimeographed as well. Those mimeographed Kamishibais were produced in great numbers during the war.
Shinjuku Shobo publishes 3 books on the history of Japanese pop cultural history; "Gariban Bunkashi", "Gariban Bunka wo Aruku" and "Gariban printed picture-story show".
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