Add to ORKGPhotograph of Bunraku puppet theater in JapanBunraku theater, Japan. Three kinds of performers take part in Bunraku: puppeteers (three men are required to operate the nearly life-size major puppets, other puppets in "bit parts" require just one man), tayū (chanters who provide the voices of puppets and narrate) and shamisen players (three-stringed musical instrument). Puppets have detachable heads, arms, and legs. A puppet's head has strings to operate the eyes, mouth, and eyebrows
Following a long and controversial tradition of Japanese women in puppetry being banned by law from ...
Photograph of puppet head (possibly depicting a married woman or "fuke oyama"), Bunraku Puppet Theat...
Photo shows Bunraku puppet (possibly depicting an old woman or "baba") from the Lennox and Catherine...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in JapanBunraku theater, Japan. Three kinds of performers take ...
Photo shows bunraku puppet theater in JapanThe art of puppetry in Japan dates back more than a thous...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in Osaka, JapanOsaka Bunraku, puppet and operator, Osaka, Japan
Photo shows bunraku puppet theater in JapanThe art of puppetry in Japan dates back more than a thous...
Summarizes the long history of puppet theater in Japan using excerpts to show how it can express a p...
Photograph of bunraku at Gion Corner, Kyoto, JapanBunraku puppet show at Gion Corner, Kyoto, Japan
Photo shows an audience watching (what appears to be) a Bunraku puppet theater performanceBunrak
Photograph of bunraku at Gion Corner, Kyoto, JapanSnow scene, puppet show at Gion Corner, Kyoto, Jap...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in Osaka, JapanKamishimo costume, Osaka Bunraku, Japan
Bunraku. Where puppets explain human emotions better than humans. Like Opera dei Pupi in Sicily, Ita...
Photograph of puppet head (possibly depicting a married woman or "fuke oyama"), Bunraku Puppet Theat...
Photo shows Bunraku puppet from the Lennox and Catherine Tierney art collection, now at the Mingei M...
Following a long and controversial tradition of Japanese women in puppetry being banned by law from ...
Photograph of puppet head (possibly depicting a married woman or "fuke oyama"), Bunraku Puppet Theat...
Photo shows Bunraku puppet (possibly depicting an old woman or "baba") from the Lennox and Catherine...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in JapanBunraku theater, Japan. Three kinds of performers take ...
Photo shows bunraku puppet theater in JapanThe art of puppetry in Japan dates back more than a thous...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in Osaka, JapanOsaka Bunraku, puppet and operator, Osaka, Japan
Photo shows bunraku puppet theater in JapanThe art of puppetry in Japan dates back more than a thous...
Summarizes the long history of puppet theater in Japan using excerpts to show how it can express a p...
Photograph of bunraku at Gion Corner, Kyoto, JapanBunraku puppet show at Gion Corner, Kyoto, Japan
Photo shows an audience watching (what appears to be) a Bunraku puppet theater performanceBunrak
Photograph of bunraku at Gion Corner, Kyoto, JapanSnow scene, puppet show at Gion Corner, Kyoto, Jap...
Photograph of Bunraku puppet theater in Osaka, JapanKamishimo costume, Osaka Bunraku, Japan
Bunraku. Where puppets explain human emotions better than humans. Like Opera dei Pupi in Sicily, Ita...
Photograph of puppet head (possibly depicting a married woman or "fuke oyama"), Bunraku Puppet Theat...
Photo shows Bunraku puppet from the Lennox and Catherine Tierney art collection, now at the Mingei M...
Following a long and controversial tradition of Japanese women in puppetry being banned by law from ...
Photograph of puppet head (possibly depicting a married woman or "fuke oyama"), Bunraku Puppet Theat...
Photo shows Bunraku puppet (possibly depicting an old woman or "baba") from the Lennox and Catherine...