Japanese puppet theater

Usage examples of bunraku.

In Japan I had seen a style of puppet theater called Bunraku, where the puppeteers stand right onstage, moving these elegant dolls around without the slightest pretense of invisibility.

That night in our apartment, I kept expecting to see two teams of Bunraku masters standing behind John and me, pulling levers in our heads, sculpting every move we made.

I found myself arguing with some faceless audience in my mind--the Bunraku puppeteers, I suppose--insisting that, with all the precautions I had taken, I was more likely to be attacked by killer bees than to get pregnant.

The Bunraku puppeteers seemed to be crowding around me, somber and patient, but relentless.

Of course, I had been aware of the Bunraku puppeteers for months--but I had never quite let go of my disbelief in them.

John about the Bunraku puppeteers, about the strange things I had experienced during the last five months.

I like to think that the homeless man may have been acting under the influence of the Bunraku puppeteers.

From my new perspective, the one I had picked up while expecting Adam, I hoped the Bunraku puppeteers had a plan for how this might be done.

My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.

After watching Adam and the dolphins together, I was convinced that they were communicating in some method indiscernible to my mundane senses, the way the Bunraku puppeteers had communicated with me while I was pregnant.

Traditional theater was removed from preperformance censorship in mid-1947, beginning with Bunraku puppet theater in May, followed by Kabuki in June, and Noh in September.