The National Theater has been the home of traditional Japanese performing arts since its opening in 1966. Now the aging ...

Georgetown University hosted Seiwa Bunraku, a traditional Japanese puppet theater troupe, for a performance and lecture centered on the art of bunraku in Lohrfink Auditorium on March 21. Georgetown ...

For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country. For the first time in 30 years, a treasure of Japan has been touring the ...

The building is the "Puk Pupa Teatro," which was completed in 1971 as Japan's first theater specializing in puppet shows, in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. It is a reinforced concrete building with three ...

Kyogen master Nomura Manzo IX performs his craft which he learned from his father and grandfather. In Japanese theater, it is often thought that there are three main genres: Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku.