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Bunraku (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. [1]
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Kabuki began shortly after Bunraku, legend has it by an actress named Okuni, who lived around the end of the 16th century. Most of Kabuki's material came from Nõ and Bunraku, and its erratic dance-type movements are also an effect of Bunraku. However, Kabuki is less formal and more distant than Nõ, yet very popular among the Japanese public.
This included drawing inspiration from Japan’s distinctive Bunraku puppets, which have carved heads and hands with elaborate costumes, co-operated by a trio of puppeteers dressed in black.
He produced around 47 bunraku plays, [1] nearly 40 of them composed for jōruri, a particular form of musical narrative, and 10 kabuki plays. [2] He is considered the second greatest Japanese playwright after Chikamatsu Monzaemon .
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