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Japan’s celebrated puppet theater can be seen at the National Bunraku Theater in Osaka’s Nipponbashi district, although performances are also put on several weeks each year at Tokyo’s National Theater.
Bunraku is a Japanese performance art of surprising dramatic intensity, worth seeing if only for an hour or so in the middle of a busy day of sightseeing.
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Don’t be misled: bunraku is theater for adults rather than children, using the same dramatic themes, stories, and conventions as in noh and kabuki but achieving a unique impact with the almost life-sized, colorfully costumed puppets.
Bunraku’s heyday was the beginning of the 18th century, when playwright Monzaemon Chikamatsu wrote works specifically for the puppets that are regarded as among the greatest achievements of Japanese literature.