Kaguyahime (The Bamboo Princess) Story - Kamishibai

RoHoEn YouTube Video: Kaguyahime (The Bamboo Princess).
Playlist: Engawa Summer - Enjoy learning Japanese Culture!

Today is the last video for Engawa Summer Project.

This story is also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語, Taketori Monogatari) which is a 10th-century Japanese monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing Japanese folklore. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese prose narrative,[1][2] though the oldest surviving complete manuscript is dated to 1592.
It is the story of mysterious princess called Kaguya, who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

Please enjoy the last episode of Kamishibai: the traditional way of Storytelling!

Thank you for anyone who are watching Engawa Summer Series over the summer.
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Do you know Kamshibai?

Kamishibai (Japanese: 紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theatre and storytelling that was popular during the Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television during the twentieth century. Kamishibai was told by a kamishibaiya ("kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image.

Engawa Summer project is funded, supported, and made possible by a grant from @azhumanities Arizona Humanities and @national_endowment1 National Endowment for the Humanities @ Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix