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I'm not into Bunraku, but thought this was an interesting website:
From: Internet Scout Project <scout@scout.wisc.edu> Fri Mar 27 07:11:48 2009
The Bunraku Collection
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital … n/bunraku/
Bunraku is a form of tremendously complex puppet theater that is the result
of the extremely focused efforts of puppeteers, narrators, and musicians.
The art form was first developed in the seventeenth century, and its
popularity peaked in the eighteenth century as major playwrights began to
develop elaborate plot lines. Drawing on the remarkable Bunraku collection
of Barbara Curtis Adachi, the Columbia University Libraries has created this
gallery which includes photographs of different productions, information
about authors, and performers. Those persons new to Bunraku will want to
start by clicking on "The World of Bunraku" area. Here they can read an
essay about noted Bunraku author Chikamatsu Monzaemon and listen to music
from a Bunraku production. After that, visitors can search the entire online
archive, or browse through the collection by play title, author, performer,
or production.
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Fantastic. I love this stuff. I've always had a fascination with puppets, dummies, mannequins, wax museums, etc. This form of puppet theater is especially interesting.
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I have been looking for modern western groups doing the same thing. I once saw a short piece on German TV, where there was a puppet of an old man sitting at a table drinking. It was so cool, you could see the puppetteers' right there moving him, but it was so intense that you just ignored them.
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