Kamishibai is a type of street theater meaning "paper drama" in Japanese. It originated in Japanese Buddhist Temples where monks used picture scrolls called emakimono to teach their lessons to a mostly illiterate audience.
The storytelling method endured for centuries, but is best-known for its revival around the 1930's during the worldwide depression, when storytellers would travel from village to village by bicycle with their miniature stages, making money by selling treats to their audience.
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They would announce their arrival with wooden clappers called hyoshigi, and would often tell their stories as a series, arriving with a new episode on each visit to the village.
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