紙芝居における演技

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This essay explores the characteristics of performance of Kamishibai, or picture-card-shows, which have two contrastive forms: one prototypical and the other remodeled as it were. In the early Showa period, Kamishibai originated among cheap sweets peddlers, who acted out a story with hand-drawn picture cards in the street. It was long before Kamishibai became a popular entertainment with children. Later on, Kamishibai was remodeled into a tool for communication in the classroom. Teachers told children a story illustrated with printed picture cards. This study examines the variants of dramaturgy of Kamishibai performance. The prototypical form had no script, the performance being mostly impromptu, arising from a rough story which had been transmitted orally by a person who had both created the story and lent it to a performer. The remodeled version has a script, which necessitates plain speaking and performable narration by the performer.
2009-03-31