Usually means: Traditional Japanese puppet theater art.
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  1. Bunraku: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bunraku: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bunraku: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Bunraku, bunraku: Wordnik
  5. bunraku: Wiktionary
  6. bunraku: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Bunraku: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. bunraku: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bunraku: Dictionary.com
  10. Bunraku (film), Bunraku: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bunraku: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. bunraku: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  13. Bunraku: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bunraku: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. bunraku: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bunraku)

▸ noun:  A traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre.

Similar:
kabuki, kabuki theatre, kabuki theater, sarugaku, bugaku, kabuki play, butoh, kagura, nagauta, sangaku, more...

Opposite:
noh, kabuki, kyogen

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Similar:
kabuki, kabuki theatre, kabuki theater, sarugaku, bugaku, kabuki play, butoh, kagura, nagauta, sangaku, more...

Opposite:
noh, kabuki, kyogen



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