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Bunraku puppet theater's living national treasure calls it quits

Bunraku puppet theater's living national treasure calls it quits

Toyotake Shimatayu, 83, a living national treasure in the "Bunraku" traditional Japanese puppet theater, announces his retirement as a "tayu" narrator at a news conference in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 21, 2015. His last performance will be held in February 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women singing and playing the shamisen,a japanese balalaika

Women singing and playing the shamisen,a japanese balalaika

A scene of two young women wearing Tayu-style kamishimo while practicing singing and shamisen. One woman checks the book placed on the book stand with a family emblem and tassel, and the other woman plays the shamisen with a plectrum to tune the instrument.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐8‐0]

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