人にん形ぎょう浄じょう瑠る璃り

noun

ningyō jōruri; traditional Japanese puppet theater with shamisen accompaniment

A traditional performing art combining puppetry, narrative chanting (jōruri), and shamisen music. It is the direct predecessor of bunraku, which later became the more common term.

See also: 浄瑠璃 · 文楽

• 人にん形ぎょう浄じょう瑠る璃りは、文ぶん楽らくの前ぜん身しんとされる伝でん統とう芸げい能のうです。

  Ningyō jōruri is a traditional performing art considered the forerunner of bunraku.

• この博はく物ぶつ館かんでは、江え戸ど時じ代だいの人にん形ぎょう浄じょう瑠る璃りの舞ぶ台たい模も型けいが展てん示じされている。

  This museum displays a model of an Edo-period ningyō jōruri stage.