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) | a form of Japanese puppet theater in which puppeteers, dressed in black and visible to the audience, manipulate large puppets to the accompaniment of a chanted narration and musical instruments. |
| Bun·ra·ku (bŏŏn-rä'kōō, bŏŏn'rä'-) n. A traditional Japanese puppet theater featuring large puppets operated by onstage puppeteers with a narrative recited from offstage. The puppets have heads, hands, and feet of wood attached to a bodiless cloth costume. [Japanese : after the Bunraku-za theater built in the early 19th century by Bunraku-ken Oemurea (died 1810).] |