Bunraku
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Term · performing arts
Japanese puppet theatre from Osaka: puppeteers, a chanter (tayū) and shamisen players; named after the Bunrakuza of 1805. Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka at the beginning of the 17th century: puppeteers, chanters (tayū) and shamisen players perform together; chanting and shamisen are called jōruri1. Its rise came with the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the chanter Takemoto Gidayū, who opened his puppet theatre in Osaka in 16842; the name comes from the Bunrakuza, the Osaka theatre of 18053. A play: Sonezaki Shinjū. Wikipedia, Bunraku, “a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century” · “Three kinds of performers take part in a bunraku performance: the Ningyōtsukai or Ningyōzukai (puppeteers), the tayū (chanters), and shamisen musicians” · “The combination of chanting and shamisen playing is called jōruri”. ↩ Ebd., “It rose to popularity after the playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1724) began a collaboration with the chanter Takemoto Gidayu (1651–1714), who established the Takemoto puppet theater in Osaka in 1684”. ↩ Ebd., “Originally, the term bunraku referred only to the particular theater established in 1805 in Osaka, which was named the Bunrakuza”. ↩ Literatur Wikipedia, Bunraku: Anon., Bunraku, in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku (zuletzt abgerufen am 28.10.2026).