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From: Grego <grego-AT-gregoland.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:53:56 +0900
Subject: [Puptcrit] Kawamoto museum pics


Wanna see some cool pics?
Japan's puppet Mecca town Iida has just finished banging the annual  
festival gong, and there's colorful news. A rather nice Museum has  
been built and opened to feature the elegant puppet casts of some tv  
period dramas. They're the handy work of Kihachiro Kawamoto. Goggle  
that name for English info on him if you like his stuff. The puppets  
are mostly maybe 12 -14 inches tall, and have vent-like heads, with  
moving mouths, and sometimes moving eyes and eyebrows. They're posed  
sans rods. The main show was "Sangokushi", about the wars of the  
Three Kingdoms of ancient China. Testosterone drenched, but lovely.
No English site for the museum, but the pics are here:
http://www.city.iida.nagano.jp/puppet/kawamoto/puppet/index.html

-G









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