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    3. 紙芝居

    紙芝居

    紙かみ芝しば居い

    kamishibai

    KMT8News #21+1NounCulture & TraditionsKanji Vocab24 strokes

    かみしばい

    Noun

    1.
    kamishibai, storytelling with pictures, form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)

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    子こ供どもたちは紙かみ芝しば居いを楽たのしんだ。

    The children enjoyed the kamishibai.

    KMT5Culture & TraditionsDaily Life
    昔むかし、紙かみ芝しば居い屋やさんが自じ転てん車しゃで町まちを回まわっていました。

    In the past, kamishibai storytellers used to go around town on bicycles.

    KMT8Culture & TraditionsHistoryDaily Life
    地ち域いきのお祭まつりでは、子こ供ども向むけの紙かみ芝しば居いが披ひ露ろうされることが多 い。

    At local festivals, kamishibai for children is often performed.

    KMT8Culture & TraditionsDaily Life
    教きょう育いく現げん場ばでは、紙かみ芝しば居いが視し覚かく教きょう材ざいとして活かつ用ようされている。

    In educational settings, kamishibai is utilized as a visual teaching material.

    KMT8EducationCulture & Traditions
    紙かみ芝しば居いは、絵えと語かたりの組くみ合あわせで物ものが語たりを伝つたえる、日に本ほんの伝でん統とう的てきな芸げい能のうです。

    Kamishibai is a traditional Japanese performing art that tells stories through a combination of pictures and narration.

    KMT9Culture & TraditionsArt & Design

    Kanji that make up this word

    紙
    かみ…(1)
    paper
    芝
    しば…(3)
    turf・lawn
    居
    い.る・-い・お.る…(5)
    reside・to be・exist・live with
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