Japanese puppetry comes to America For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country. Culture Japanese puppetry comes to America ...

You can’t have a holiday in Osaka without seeing a bunraku show, a form of puppet theatre that appeared in Osaka in the late ...

The venue also offers live water puppet performances — a theatrical tradition with more than a thousand years of history — held four times daily. No reservations are required for the show.

Bunraku, named for Uemura Bunrakuken, the owner of an Osaka puppet theatre, has its roots in the seventeenth century, and especially in the plays of Chikamatsu.