"隣組 Tonarigumi" (Neighborhood association)

Date

1941 March 20

Summary

Tonarigumi or the Neighborhood Association was a community-based mutual aid organization established by the Ministry of Home Affairs under Taisei Yokusankai (the Imperial Assistance Rule Association) in 1940. In this kamishibai, the children of the Neighborhood Association are encouraged to actively participate in home front efforts by assisting families whose fathers have gone to fight the war and mothers working at military factories.

Creator/Contributor

Author

Nihon Kyōiku Kamishibai Kyōkai

Producer

Nihon Kyōiku Kamishibai Kyōkai

Publisher

Nihon Kyōiku Kamishibai Kyōkai

Artist

Koyano, Hanji, 1907-1992

Transcription

Card 20
(大政翼賛會宣傳部推薦)
『隣組』
脚本・製作　日本敎育紙芝居協會
繪畫　小谷野 半二
(表紙の説明)
(國民歌謠隣組の唄)
“トン トン トンカラリ
隣組。
格子をアケレば顏なじみ、 廻して頂戴回覽板。知らせられたり 知らせたり”

(ぬ く)

Card 1
(健ちゃん)
「今夜、隣組が集るんだよ」
(源ちゃん)
「何處で?」
（花ちゃん)
「あたいのおうちでよ。晩の五時 からはじまるの。
(間をおいて)
かあさん、隣組で代用食の試食をしてもらふ氣でゐるんだわ。さつきから庭をほっくり返して
お芋をとっていたもの。
(しばらく間をおいて)
健ちゃん。
きのふのおやつ、おいしかったでせう? あれ代用食ってのよ。
うちのかあさん、お芋にメリケンコを入れて、
そして、なんかいろんなものまぜて作ったの。 今時、おやつはお菓子でなければいや、なんて言ふの贅澤よ。
(ぬきながら)今日本は新體制なんだもの」

Card 2
(源ちゃん)
「だから、さう言ってんぢゃないか、贅澤は敵だって。
その事なんだよ」
(ぬ く)

Card 3
(源ちやん)
「うちの兄さん、花なんか贅澤だって、
ダリヤの代りにビ—マン植ゑたんだよ。
ビーマンなんて辛くて不味くて、 榮養はないだらう? そんなもの贅澤だって、 僕一言ってやったんだ。そしたら兄さんがね、
(ぬ く)

Card 4
ダリヤよりは贅澤でないって、 がんばるんだ。
だから僕ね、
目上の人の言ふことを下が聞くのは、
(ぬ く)

Card 5
上意下達だけど
下の人の言ふことだって、理窟が通ってゐたら、
(たどたどしく)
目上の人は聞くのが下情上通だらう?
それが新體制だと言ってやったんだ。
そしたら、
理窟を言ふなって叱られちゃった」
(ぬ く)

Card 6
(トーフヤ)
「トーフ トーフー」
(健ちゃん)
「アッいつものお豆腐屋さんが來た。遅くなるよ。
早く回覽板をお隣へ持って行かなけりゃ」
(ぬきながら)
(みんなで)
「をばさん!」

Card 7
(をばさん)
「アラッ皆さんお揃で、回覽板?どうもごくらう樣。
(笑ひ乍ら)
格子をあければ顏なじみだわね」
(ぬ く)

Card 8
(君子)
「をばさん、はじめまして。
あたくし小林君子って云ふんです。 どうぞよろしく」
(をばさん)
「こちらこそよろしく、
隣組なんですもの、
仲良くしませうね」
(ぬく)

Card 9
(健ちゃん)
「をばさん、この子、今日から僕たちの隣組に入ったばかりなんだよ。
まだ顏なじみの卵なんだよ。
……(間)……
でも君ちゃんとこのお父さんはね
戰爭に征ってるんだって。
お家にはお母さんと君ちゃんと、それから オッパイのんでる坊やだけなんだよ。
(ぬきながら)
ハイツ、回覽板」
(ぬ く)

Card 10
(女の子)
「アッ、この字、私知ってるわ」
(男の子)
「この字、むづかしい字だな！」
(他の子)
「これ、奮戰って読むんだよ」
(千代ちゃん)
「をばさん、ここに何て書いてあるの? 大きな聲で讀んで頂戴よ」
(ぬ く)

Card 11
(朗讀する)
「この度、吾々隣組に、小林文雄氏一家が、新らしく加入されました。主人文雄氏は、目下前線で、大東亞建設の爲、奮戰してゐられます。明子夫人は、二人の子供をかかへ、晝は、軍需工場で獨立自活の爲、 働いて居られます。
吾々隣組は、出征兵士の家をみとる責任があります。 就てはその為、打合せを致し度く 本タ五時當番幹事宅に 御參集願ひます」
(ぬ く)

Card 12
(をばさん)
「どう?
何の事書いてあるか
皆んなわかった?」
……(間)……
(健ちゃん)
「よくは、わからないや。
だけど隣組ってのは お互に助け合はなければ いけないって事が 書いてあるんでせう?」
(皆んな)
「さうだ。さうだ。
健ちゃんの云ふ通りだよ」
(ぬ く)

Card 13
(男の子の聲)
「君ちゃん所のトウサンは、
大東亞建設の爲、戰地に行ってゐるし、カアサンは、工場で兵隊さんに送る鐵砲の彈をつくってゐるんです。隣組の人達は皆んなで、君ちゃん所、助け合はなくてはなりません。
そしたら君ちゃん、
トウサンゐなくても淋しくはないでせう。
(ぬきながら)
只、困るのは赤ちゃんの事です」

Card 14
(君ちゃん)(一人言のやうに)
「うちのボーヤ、かはいくって、良い子なんだけど、とってもくひしん坊なの。
オッパイ ほしくなると
工場に行ってゐる母さん所に聞えるやうな大きな聲で、
泣くんですもの……」
(ぬ く)

Card 15
(千代ちゃん)
「アッ! さうだ。
オッパイ をばさんに貰ったら……。
ね、をばさん
君ちゃんのボーヤに オッパイ上げて頂戴よ」
(ぬ く)

Card 16
(をばさん)(あわてて)
「あら、千代ちゃんたら、
をばさんはオッパイ出ないのよ。
だってをばさんのうちには 赤ちゃんが居ないでせう？」
……(間)……
(ぬく)

Card 17
(皆んな)
「困っちゃったなあ、
どうしたら良いだらうなあ」
……(間)……
(健ちゃん)
「あ、さうだ。
そんなら。
ぼくんとこの母さんに賴んでみよう。
ぼくんとこのボーヤと、君ちゃんとこのボーヤ一緖に オッパイ半分こでのめば良いや」
(ぬ く〉

Card 18
子供隣組が頭をひねったオッパイの件も、健ちゃんのお母さんの申入れに めでたく解決しました。
(をばさん)
「さあこれでみんな旨く行って本當に良かったわ。皆んな揃って、五人ともおりこうさん。隣組ってね、手の五本指と同じですって。五本揃って初めてお手々の役をするのよ。
だから丁度五人揃って五本指、仲良し仲間になりませうね」
(ぬ く)

Card 19
(隣組の唄)
“何げんあらうと 一しよたい 心は一つのやねの月 まとめられたり まとめたり”
(終)

Translation of transcription

Card 20
Neighborhood Association
Recommended by the Publicity Department, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Script and production: Nihon Kyōiku Kamishibai Kyōkai (The Association of Japanese Educational Kamishibai); Illustration: Hanji Koyano

(Explanation of the cover)

NARRATOR
(The national song of the Neighborhood Association)
Knock knock knock, clink.
The Neighborhood Association.
Once you open the lattice door, it’s all familiar faces. They circulate the communication board. Informing each other, and being informed.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 1
KEN-CHAN
The Neighborhood Association gathers tonight.

GEN-CHAN
Where?

HANA-CHAN
At my home. It starts at five in the evening.
(After a pause)
I think my mother intends to have everyone try her substitute food at the Neighborhood Association. She was digging in the yard for sweet potatoes.
(After a pause)
Ken-chan, wasn’t yesterday’s snack tasty?
They were substitute foods.
My mother cooked them by mixing potatoes with flour and other things. It’s too much of a luxury to ask for sweets now.

(As you pull the slide)

After all, Japan has entered a new system now.

Card 2
GEN-CHAN
That’s what I was telling you. Luxury is our enemy. That’s exactly what it is.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 3
GEN-CHAN (continued)
My brother planted peppers instead of dahlia flowers, saying flowers are a luxury. But peppers are bitter and taste bad. They are not nutritious, either, right? So I told him, that’s a luxury too. Then, you know what my brother said?

(Pull the slide.)

Card 4
GEN-CHAN (continued)
He insisted that peppers are less luxurious than dahlias. I know listening to my elders is the right course of action.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 5
GEN-CHAN (continued)
However, if children have their own reasoning,
(Tottering)
Elders listening to their juniors would facilitate communication.
I told him this is what the new system is about.
But then, he scolded me for arguing.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 6
TOFU VENDOR
Tofu, tofu.

KEN-CHAN
The tofu vendor’s here. We’re going to be late.
I have to hurry up and bring the communication board to our neighbor.

(As you pull the slide)

EVERYONE
Auntie!

Card 7
AUNTIE
All of you are here. You brought the communication board? Thank you.
(While laughing)
Indeed, once you open the lattice door, it’s all familiar faces.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 8
KIMIKO
Auntie, nice to meet you.
My name is Kimiko Kobayashi. It’s a pleasure to meet you.

AUNTIE
It’s nice to meet you, too. We are part of the Neighborhood Association. Let’s be friends.
(Pull the slide.)

Card 9
KEN-CHAN
Auntie, she joined our Neighborhood Association today.
Soon she will be a familiar face, too.
(A pause)
Kimi-chan’s father is fighting in the war.
They only have Kimi-chan, her mother, and a baby brother that her mother breastfeeds.

(As you pull the slide)

Here is the communication board.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 10
GIRL
Oh, I can read this character.

BOY
This is a difficult character!

ANOTHER CHILD
This reads “a desperate fight.”

CHIYO-CHAN
Auntie, what does it say here? Please read it aloud.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 11
AUNTIE
(Read aloud)
“The family of Mr. Fumio Kobayashi recently joined our Neighborhood Association. The husband Fumio is currently fighting a desperate war for the establishment of Greater East Asia. Mrs. Akiko Kobayashi supports two children by working at a military factory. Our Neighborhood Association is responsible for looking after families with soldier fathers. We request your presence to have a meeting at the manager’s residence at five o’clock this evening.”

(Pull the slide.)

Card 12
AUNTIE
Did you get it? Did everyone understand?

(A pause)

KEN-CHAN
I don’t really get it. But anyway, it says we should help one another in the Neighborhood Association, doesn’t it?

EVERYONE
That’s right, that’s right.
Exactly what Ken-chan said.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 13
BOY
Kimi-chan’s father’s gone to war for the establishment of Greater East Asia, and her mother is working at a factory to make guns and bullets to send to the soldiers. The people of the Neighborhood Association need to come together and help Kimi-chan’s family. That way, Kimi-chan won’t be lonely even without her father.

(As you pull the slide)

BOY (continued)
The only problem is the baby.

Card 14
KIMI-CHAN
(As if speaking to herself)
My baby boy is adorable and nice, but he is hungry all the time.
When he wants milk, he cries so loudly that my mother might hear him all the way at the factory.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 15
CHIYO-CHAN
Oh, yeah. How about auntie breastfeeds him?
Auntie, please give your milk to Kimi-chan’s baby brother.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 16
AUNTIE
(Flustered)
Chiyo-chan, I don’t have milk to breastfeed. You see? We don’t have a baby at home.

(A pause)
(Pull the slide.)

Card 17
EVERYONE
We are out of good ideas. What shall we do?

(A pause)

KEN-CHAN
Oh, yes. I’ll ask my mother. My baby brother and Kimi-chan’s baby brother can share the milk.

(Pull the slide.)

Card 18
NARRATOR
The breastfeeding issue was happily resolved after the children of the Neighborhood Association put their brains together and Ken-chan’s mother agreed to their request.

AUNTIE
I’m glad everything worked out well. All five of you are bright. The Neighborhood Association is like five fingers of a hand. You need all five of them to play their roles. Let’s get along with one another. Five children, five fingers.
(Pull the slide.)

Card 19
NARRATOR
(A song of the Neighborhood Association)
“Whatever happens, we are together. Our hearts are under the same roof. We stand together. We work together.”

(The end.)

Scope and contents

Koyano Hanji 小谷野 半二 (artist); Nihon Kyōiku Kamishibai Kyōkai 日本敎育紙芝居協會 (author, producer, publisher)

Language

Japanese

Script

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)

Genre/form

Kamishibai plays

Collection information

Collection title

Kamishibai collection

Collection ID

2018C32.12417284

Collection abstract

Japanese illustrated paper play sheets, intended primarily for children and women at the homefront and dealing with World War II propaganda themes.

Rights

No known restrictions.

Holding repository

Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred citation

"隣組 Tonarigumi" (Neighborhood association), Kamishibai collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, https://n2t.net/ark:/54723/h3n59f

Identifiers

Record ID

2018C32.00013

Permalink

https://n2t.net/ark:/54723/h3n59f

RefID

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EZID

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Digitization information

Imaging system

iXG 100MP, Phase One

Capture date

2020-11-11T13:55:58-08:00