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Bunraku
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Bun·ra·ku  (bn-räk, bnrä-)
n.
A traditional Japanese puppet theater featuring large puppets operated by onstage puppeteers with a narrative recited from offstage. The puppets have heads, hands, and feet of wood attached to a bodiless cloth costume.
[Japanese : after the Bunraku-za theater built in the early 19th century by Bunraku-ken Oemurea (died 1810).]
bunraku [bʊnˈrɑːkuː]
n
(Performing Arts / Theatre) a Japanese form of puppet theatre in which the puppets are usually about four feet high, with moving features as well as limbs and each puppet is manipulated by up to three puppeteers who remain onstage
[Japanese]
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Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a masterpiece of intangible cultural heritage last year, following the same designation to Noh and Bunraku plays, is performed at several theaters every month and will also be staged at the Paris Opera House for the first time next year.
FEATURE: Keeping Kabuki alive in changing times by Asian Economic News
1) Fujita's account of the Bunraku adaptation of The Tempest adds another layer to this complex construction: instead of having a new head made for the Prospero puppet, the puppeteers decided to use one that traditionally represented two legendary tragic heroes of Bunraku plays, the exiled aristocrat Kan Shojo in Sugawara and the banished Shunkan, title character of a play that also exists in Kabuki and No versions.
Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage by Potter, Lois / Shakespeare Studies
1) Fujita's account of the Bunraku adaptation of The Tempest adds another layer to this complex construction: instead of having a new head made for the Prospero puppet, the puppeteers decided to use one that traditionally represented two legendary tragic heroes of Bunraku plays, the exiled aristocrat Kan Shojo in Sugawara and the banished Shunkan, title character of a play that also exists in Kabuki and No versions.
New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia by Potter, Lois / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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