Kamishibai

These are some fragments of my work for the Kamishibai i'm illustrating. I'm discovering that working with collage is very interesting!
Kamishibai (紙芝居), literally "paper drama", is a form of storytelling that originated in Japanese Buddhist temples in the 12th century, where monks used e-maki (picture scrolls) to convey stories with moral lessons to a mostly illiterate audience.
The gaito kamishibaiya, or kamishibai storyteller, rode from village to village on a bicycle equipped with a small stage.