JAPANESE

THEATRE

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THEATRE

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1600s
Osaka
Bunrakuza

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use of puppets
Three
Performers:
Puppeteers
Chanters
Shamisen

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stories
somehow
similar to
Kabuki
playwright
Chikamatsu

PUPPETS
carved by
specialists
focuses on the
head and hands

THE HEAD
created for
specific roles
repainted and
prepared before
each
presentation

COSTUMES
varying colors
and patterns
made out of
cotton

PUPPETEER
omozukai
hidarizukai
sashizukai
ashizukai

STAGE
The musicians stage (Yuka)
The partitions (Tesuri) and the pit
(Funazoko)
Small curtain (Komaku) and Screenedoff Rooms (Misuuchi)