Gaitō kamishibai in postwar Japan: picture-storytelling performance in the democratic public sphere

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Title Gaitō kamishibai in postwar Japan: picture-storytelling performance in the democratic public sphere
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department Asia Center
Author Hohlios, Stephanie Marie
Date 2015-05
Description This thesis examines a popular Japanese form ofpicture-storytelling street theaterknown as gaitō kamishibai, a pervasive form of children's entertainment from circa 1925 to 1965. In gaitō kamishibai,a live performer uses sequential painted picture panels in tandem with his own voice and bodilygesture to relaynarrative. Thekamishibaiperformer (kamishibaiya) would traditionally navigate the city on a bicycle, with a simple wooden stage for displaying the painted panels to his audience mounted on the back. Focusing on two kamishibai picture-stories-Kurama Ko-Tengu and Abarenbō Sazen-that were produced in postwar Osaka by the association San'yūkai, foundedin 1947, this thesis analyzes visual-literary themes in the picture-stories themselves that bear particular salience in articulating trends of postwar creative production and democraticparticipation. Further, when placed in conversation with other modes of modern historical picture-aided performancein Japan, these casestudies implicatega
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Gaito; Kamishibai; Popular performance; Postwar Japan; Public sphere; Street theater
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Stephanie Marie Hohlios 2015
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6f79mwg
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