Deaf Puppet Theater HITOMI
"The Palm-Winne Drunkard"

This year, Deaf Puppet Theater made a new work in April, and is going to go around Japan to show it.
And the Foundation Modern Puppet Center keeps doing International exchange and introducing to culture of Asian puppet.
Otome Bunraku is doing performance at school as a service of the Agency for cultural affairs. They are going to show performance of Otome Bunraku in local areas, and they teach how to play about Otome Bunraku for children in school.
The foundation keeps doing Masuda Itoayatsuri Ningyo and Otome Bunraku as Children's Traditional Culture Classes Program of the Agency for cultural affairs, and is going to research puppet culture in Korea, Thailand, and France.

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Contents of main program

• ・Performance of　the 30th anniversary “The Palm-Winne Drunkard”(25 performances)
• ・Performance of  “ Boxes ～a music box of grandpa～” (17 performances)
•  ・“Issun Boshi” (7 performances)
• ・Performance of “Hannichimura” (1 performance)
• ・Performance of “The Tempest”　(1 performance)
• ・Performance of “The Fire of Inamura” (4 performances)
• ・Workshop “Sound musical instrument” (3 workshops)
• ・Workshop for schools for the Deaf “Making puppet theater with the Deaf children” (11 performances) (11 workshops)
• ・Lecture   

Otome Bunraku

• ・Performance &　workshop in school supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs (6 schools)
• ・4th special class of Otome Bunraku
• ・The training and performance program of Otome Bunraku supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs (6 schools)
• ・Young Otome Bunraku
• ・Lecture demonstration in school (7 performances)
• ・Otome Bunraku in Local area (2 performances)
• ・Exhibition of Asian puppet, Puppet show, Workshop
• ・Otome Bunraku Tōrō nagashi
• ・Performance of Otome Bunraku (2 performances)
• ・Produce of the puppet performance in the libraries of Bunkyo area (13 performances)
• ・Exhibition of Karakuri ningyo
• ・Asian puppet interchange workshop