OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances ...

Honolulu Theatre for Youth presents the world premiere of Winnie-the-Pooh and Bunraku Too, adapted from A. A. Milne's beloved stories and incorporating traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry. The ...

Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe will perform ancient Japanese puppetry Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pardoe Theatre at Brigham Young University. Tickets are $11, or $6 with a BYU ...

Children see and play with all sorts of puppets: Finger puppets, hand puppets, sock puppets, marionettes and even Muppets. But what about Japanese Bunraku puppets? This type of puppetry is an ancient ...

Bunraku is a traditional performance art in which the narrator (tayu), shamisen player and puppeteers combine their mastery — cultivated over decades of training — to breathe life into otherwise ...

For the first time in 30 years, a treasure of Japan has been touring the United States. It's not jewels or a painting. It's a sophisticated kind of puppet theater where the puppets are almost the size ...

WUPPERTAL, Germany — June 17, 2020 — The National Bunraku Theatre in Osaka, Japan, has chosen Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time network to drive signal transport for the theater’s upgrade to ...

Kanjuro Kiritake, a Bunraku puppeteer, performs Japan's traditional puppet drama called 'Bunraku' at National Theatre in Tokyo OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a ...

OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) – Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances ...