Children in old Japan 1959 kamishibai 紙芝居 昔の日本

[papanoelborraxo]

mukashi mukashi

[jfchenier]

Michael, thanks very much for sharing this wonderful footage, and for allowing me to use the footage in my project. If you want to take a look at how I used it, my video is at youtube.com/watch?v=jtaj9K8A1c­c .

[KOITAROWWW]

目からウロコ! Back to S'30! 紙芝居おじさんが所さんみ似てるxD

[HaggisMacfee]

The song was written by Noguchi Ujo (1882-1945)

[HaggisMacfee]

I'd like to know a little about the melody,it's obviously

a song associated with children, but what is it called

and when was it written?

[MichaelRogge]

@HaggisMacfee It is a very popular Japanese children's song about a raccoon. It is called sho sho sho jo ji. Look it up in Google and you will get text and more details. Eartha Kit 's version of it some fifty years ago made it popular in the West. When in Japan I saw a Japanese film in 1958 about the song writer whose name I forgot. A very moving film. He made many more songs.

[MichaelRogge]

@MichaelRogge. Thanks. I saw a Japanese film about the life of Ujo Noguchi in Kobe 50 years ago. I was very moved by the songs he wrote.

[Suilyaniz]

What a great tradition. Wonderful video.

[MichaelRogge]

I have dozens of clips of Showa Japan, but they seem to go unnoticed. To the contrary my clips of old Hong Kong have been viewed by 700.000 Cantonese ! I had a photo exhbition in Tokyo last year, though, visited by 49.000 Japanese.

[lostinxlation]

I was born a few years after this video was taken, but I have never seen the street kamishibai in my childhood. I guess TV killed them so quickly.

Thank you for the video that reminds us of how the old Japan looked like.

[romankf]

Uau

[dilouse]

Estupendo!! y una hermosa práctica que se está extendiendo. Kamishibai.. toda una fiesta.

[raul415]

Thank you so much for that video it is wonderful!