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18 sectionsContents
- History
- Today
- Music and song
- Puppets
- The head of the Puppet
- Costumes
- Construction
- Text and the puppets
- Performers
- Stage
- The musician's stage ({{transliteration|ja|yuka}})
- The partitions ({{transliteration|ja|tesuri}}) and the pit ({{transliteration|ja|funazoko}})
- Small curtain ({{transliteration|ja|komaku}}) and screened-off rooms ({{transliteration|ja|misuuchi}})
- Large curtain ({{transliteration|ja|joshiki-maku}})
- Further reading
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|The character Osono, from the play , in a performance by the Tonda Puppet Troupe of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture
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. Three kinds of performers take part in a performance: the or (puppeteers), the (chanters), and musicians. Occasionally other instruments such as drums will be used. The combination of chanting and playing is called and the Japanese word for puppet (or dolls, generally) is . It is used in many plays.