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.
ETYMOLOGY:
Japanese : after the Bunraku-za theater built in the early 19th century by Bunraku-ken Oemurea (died 1810).
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