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Yoshida Tamao (1919–2006)

Living National Treasure Bunraku lead puppeteer (omozukai) in Osaka famed for six decades of silent tragic-character animation.

Japanese Bunraku Living National Treasure master puppeteer Yoshida Tamao

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Japanese Bunraku Living National Treasure master puppeteer Yoshida Tamao
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Entering Osaka's Ningyō Jōruri troupe at age fourteen in 1933, Yoshida Tamao rose through decades of black-hooded foot (ashizukai) and left-arm (hidarizukai) service before operating the head and right hand of Bunraku's subtlest male protagonists in Love Suicides at Sonezaki and Chūshingura. 1

Designated a Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property (Living National Treasure) of Japan in 1977 and awarded the Kyoto Prize in 2003, he proved how a two-millimetre tilt of a carved hinoki neck conveys grief without words. 1

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Bunraku Ningyō Jōruri Puppet Theatre
Osaka, Japan · Craft
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Japan
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What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.

SourcePublisherLicence
Living National Treasures of Ningyō Jōruri BunrakuJapan Arts Council / National Bunraku Theatre, 2006—
"Yoshida Tamao (1919–2006)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/yoshida-minsho · CC BY-SA 4.0.