Karakuri toys - Karakurigangu

Japanese: からくり玩具 - からくりがんぐ
Karakuri toys - Karakurigangu

...The horse trough and Noah's Ark were created in the Middle Ages, when the influence of Christianity increased. Automatic mechanical toys began with the legends of talking oracle statues in ancient Egypt, and automatic mechanical toys appeared in the Iliad, and in the 4th century BC, Aristotle spoke of a moving Aphrodite. In the Middle Ages, the Christian church suppressed these toys, claiming that they were the work of the devil, but they did not disappear, and in the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci created a moving lion and presented it to the emperor, and many other technical masterpieces were invented. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Karakuri toys" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈馬槽〉や〈ノアの箱舟〉はキリスト教の影響力が増した中世に生まれている。 自動仕掛けのからくり玩具は古代エジプトのもの言う神託像の伝説に始まり,《イーリアス》には自動からくり玩具が登場し,前4世紀,アリストテレスは動くアフロディテについて語っている。中世には,これらの玩具を悪魔のしわざとしてキリスト教会は弾圧するが滅びることなく,ルネサンスになるとレオナルド・ダ・ビンチが動くライオンを作って皇帝に献上したのをはじめ,数多くの技術の粋をつくしたものが発明された。…

※「からくり玩具」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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