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Book review: Traditional Japanese Theater, An Anthology of Plays
This book is about 550 pages long so it takes one a while to read. It is basically a selection of excerpts (the Japanese write very long plays, some up to several hours, and only excerpts of plays are now performed) of traditional Japanese plays, each with its own introduction, and each type of Japanese theatre gets a short chapter explaining the styles, traditions, costumes and staging.
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What is bunraku puppetry?
Bunraku (pronounced boon-rah-koo), is an ancient art of puppetry that was developed in Japan. The puppets, also known as ningyo joruri in Japanese, used in bunraku performance are beautifully handcarved wooden rod puppets, which have been in use for around 200 years. (This isn’t to be confused with table-top puppets, which are a bastardised version of bunraku. Puppeteers seem to use the terms interchangeably, but actually they’re quite different)
please, please! i want to make big mouth puppets to do ministrywork in Madagascar! can u help me with it?
... Francien Broodryk on Free muppet-type puppet patterns: A list