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Storytelling in Japanese Art
Language: en
Pages: 122
Authors: Masako Watanabe
Categories: Emaki Jōruri (Scrolls)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Presents 17 classic Japanese stories as told through 30 illustrated handscrolls ranging from the 13th to 19th centuries.
Kamishibai Man
Language: en
Pages: 37
Authors: Allen Say
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-24 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children c
Rakugo, the Popular Narrative Art of Japan
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Heinz Morioka
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Rakugo is the traditional Japanese art of storytelling. The stories are also called rakugo, or hanashi, and they are performed by professional narrators called
Explaining Pictures
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Ikumi Kaminishi
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Beginning with the claim that the popularization of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, Explaining Pictures reexamines the histo
The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan
Language: en
Pages: 536
Authors: M. W. Shores
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600–1868) and Meiji (1868–