This paper examines the possibility of using kamishibai as a supportive tool for pedagogical aims. The first part deals with the origins of this story-telling theatre emerging in the Japanese culture and reviewing the extensive and diverse methodological procedures that have led kamishibai to build into the education of many countries.

This paper examines the possibility of using kamishibai as a supportive tool for pedagogical aims. The first part deals with the origins of this story-telling theatre emerging in the Japanese culture and reviewing the extensive and diverse methodological procedures that have led kamishibai to build into the education of many countries.