Puppet - Kugutsu

Japanese: 傀儡 - くぐつ

Also written as kugutsu mawashi, kairai shi, etc. It can also refer to a puppet. According to Oe no Masafusa's "Kugutsushi-ki" (Record of the Puppeteers) from the end of the Heian period, they wandered from place to place in groups, the men hunting, performing puppet-twirling, acrobatics, and illusions, and the women singing and prostitution. Later, some became affiliated with temples and shrines and performed puppet-twirling in various places, and a troupe based in Nishinomiya, Settsu, appeared that walked around with Ebisu puppets. This trend in puppet-twirling encouraged the establishment of Bunraku puppet theater, but it continued to exist as street performance until the Edo period in the form of a hanging puppet theater in which a puppet was pulled out of a box worn on the chest and twirled.
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Japanese:

傀儡師とも書き，〈くぐつまわし〉また〈かいらいし〉などともいう。操り人形を指してもいう。平安末期，大江匡房(おおえのまさふさ)の《傀儡子記》によると，彼らは集団で各地を漂泊し，男は狩猟をし，人形回しや曲芸，幻術などを演じ，女は歌をうたい，売春も行った。のち寺社に帰属して各地で人形回しをするものもでき，摂津西宮を根拠に夷(えびす)人形を回し歩く芸団なども現れた。これら人形回しの流れは，人形浄瑠璃の成立を促したが，一方，胸にかけた箱から人形を出して回す首かけ芝居の形で，江戸時代まで大道芸として存続した。
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