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MANGA KAMISHIBAI: THE ART OF JAPANESE PAPER THEATER
Eric P. Nash
Harry N. Abrams, 2009






This one got past me at first, but it made a great Valentine’s Day gift from my sweetie. Kamishibai is Japanese paper theater – a mysterious 1930s phenomenon that peaked mid-century whereby a storyteller would wheel his pushcart to a convenient park, ring the bell or clack the hiyogoshi sticks a few

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