Bunraku is the most highly developed puppet theater art in the world. It is designated as Intangible Culture Treasure. When you watch Bunraku, you’ll be enchanted by the high level of artistic technique to maneuver puppets and music performance with traditional Japanese instruments. The unique characteristics of Bunraku are firstly that each puppet requires three puppeteers to bring it to life, and secondly those puppeteers appear openly, in the eyes of the audience. These two characteristics are completely different from the other puppet theatre traditions around the world.