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Although its popularity waned during the Meiji period, it has been “rediscovered” this century, the most dramatic evidence being the vast investment in the National Bunraku Theater in Nipponbashi.
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.
There’s also an enchanting collection of bunraku puppets — a rare chance to see them at close range.
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.
Nipponbashi is also famous as the national home of bunraku, Japan’s dazzling traditional puppet theater.
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