Bunraku Puppets
Description
Bunraku puppets — the eerily lifelike figures of Japanese puppet theater, manipulated by black-robed handlers in one of the most technically demanding performance arts in the world — appear in this undated Yumeji composition, their elaborate costumes and expressive carved faces giving the print an uncanny, slightly disturbing energy. Yumeji was engaged with Japanese theatrical culture, and the bunraku puppets offered him figures of emotional intensity comparable to his bijin but entirely constructed, their feelings manufactured rather than felt — a tension that suited his sensibility.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Bunraku Puppets was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Bunraku Puppets depicts kabuki.