Mobile stage used for open-air "Bunraku" puppet theater performance

Puppeteers rehearse on an assembled stage made entirely with Japanese cypress in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2015, ahead of the first open-air performance in the traditional art's birthplace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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