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bunraku

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bunraku

Japanese traditional puppet theatre, in which nearly life-size dolls act out a chanted dramatic narrative, called joruri, to the accompaniment of a small samisen. Puppet theatre reached its height in the 18th century with the plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and declined later because of a lack of good joruri writers.



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Sekino earned his position as a paramount 20th century print artists in Japan with his prints of the Kabuki and Bunraku theaters, portraits of renowned artists and writers, views of traditional Japanese roofs, and his series of the "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido," an edition of which is now on exhibit at the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Taymor pours her obvious love of international theatrical forms — unconventionally integrating conventions from Japanese Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku to Indonesian masked dance-drama and shadow puppetry — into simple-appearing scenes, telling her tale with elemental depth and wit.
In Pa'n's Labyrinth, I used a Japanese physical element called a bunraku," he says, "where an actor moves a puppet with his own movements.
 
 
 
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