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Bunraku started out in Osaka
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Takemoto Gidayu established the Takemoto-za theatre
In 1684, Takemoto Gidayu established the Takemoto-za theatre in the Dotonbori district of Osaka and teamed up with the famous playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon -
The Love-Suicide at Sonezaki.
1703, Chikamatsu Monzaemon published his most famous work, Sonezaki Shinju, or The Love-Suicide at Sonezaki. -
changes in puppets
the puppets went from one operater to three opraters -
doll sizechange again
the dolls doubled in size and became 2/3 the size of a averge person thats the size they use today -
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The Takemoto-za produced Bunraku that turned into classics
With the trio of Namiki Senryu, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Takeda Izumo, the Takemoto-za theatre produced each year one of what became the three classics of the Bunraku theatre: Sugawara Denju Te-narai Kagami (The Secret of Sugawara's Calligraphy), Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees), and Kanadehon Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) performed more today than any other play -
When the Takemoto-za theatre closed
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joruri was open
After the collapse of both the Takemoto-za and the Toyotake-za puppet theatres, a small joruri hall was opened near Kozu Bridge in Osaka, and in 1811 -
moved the hall and called it Bunraku-za
was in 1872, after it was relocated to Matsushima, that the hall became officially known as the Bunraku-za. -
rebuilt the theatre
after world war three they rebulied the Yotsubashi Bunraku-za. first because Bunraku was a tradtin that should keep going on -
Period: to Feb 9, 1185
Peolpe would travel and do puppet plays
kairaishi and kugutsumawashi―both of which mean "doll manipulators."
