| Specifically, the ubiquitous images of bodily fragmentation in her film reveal the traces of traditional bunraku puppetry and Javanese wood-carving formative to her art. |
| The Tokugawa Period gave rise to the bunraku puppet drama and kabuki theater, for which Chikamatsu wrote tragedies. |
| Out now THIS beautiful side-scrolling platformer was inspired by Japan's traditional bunraku puppet theatre. |
| The same technique of the reciter is found in the Japanese bunraku theatre, in which the chanter contributes enormously to the full effect and is, indeed, regarded as one of the stars of the company. |
| Around the same time bunraku began to flourish: a highly refined puppet theatre in which the texts are delivered by a singer-narrator seated at the side of the stage. |
| He wrote for kabuki as well as the traditional Japanese puppet dramas called bunraku. |
