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three grown men wrestle one puppet into weeping better than you ever could.
means a japanese traditional puppet theater where a chanter narrates and sings all voices while a shamisen plays and three visible puppeteers operate each doll.
from emerged in osaka in the early 1600s from the fusion of joruri chanted narrative and puppetry, taking its modern name from the uemura bunrakuken theater that revived the art in the 1800s.
puppeteers per dollthree, in full view, unmasked yet ignored
master's facethe lead puppeteer alone shows his face
apprenticeship pathlegs first, ten years, then hands, then head
unesco statusnamed intangible cultural heritage in 2003
for instance
national bunraku theatre — osaka, japan's dedicated house since 1984
sonezaki shinju — chikamatsu's 1703 love-suicide play, the form's founding hit