Kami-shibai (Japanese: 紙芝居) is a storytelling performance with picture cards, and is a traditional Japaneseentertainment for children. In Japanese "Kami" means paper and "shibai" means drama or enternainment. The performer tells a story and shows pictures from scene to scene. Kami-shibai is a bidirectional media which is comprised of actions and reactions between a performer and audiences. With the spread of television, kami-shibai went out of date.
