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by autoexec
1400 days ago
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> "Since 2015, The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) has been promoting the "Anime NEXT_100" project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japanese animation. As a major initiative of the project, this database was first released on a trial basis on October 22, 2021, and after confirming functionality and operation, and making improvements and updates, it has now been released to the public." For all their "improvements and updates" Anime Taizen doesn't seem to be holding up very well against the traffic. I was curious about the 100 year claim. It's likely anime existed much longer but Namakura Gatana is often considered the oldest surviving Japanese animation and it's on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g) |
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> Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television.
> Kamishibai were performed 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.
The oldest surviving clip of Japanese animation from 1917 (which was delightful by the way, thanks for posting the link) - I think we can recognize that there's already a visual language established, the way the characters are drawn. It's crude, but there's surprising sophistication, which seems to imply a historical context of trial and error over generations.
> Kamishibai has its earliest origins in Japanese Buddhist temples, where Buddhist monks from the 8th century onward used emakimono ("picture scrolls") as pictorial aids for recounting their history of the monasteries, an early combination of picture and text to convey a story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai