Bunraku - traditional Japanese theater, which is the national cultural heritage. The performances of the theater Bunraku puppets involved a height of about one meter run puppeteers - the master and his assistants. Performances are accompanied by a puppet play on the three-jet lute - shamisen and melodious narration jōruri by the storyteller.

The first puppet shows staged in Japan itinerant actors in X-XI century. The name of this kind of theatrical art got the name of one of the first of the play in the XVIII century, whose name Uemura Bunrakuken. Performances bunraku were very popular in the Edo period. Like the Kabuki theater, puppet theater was fun, accessible to ordinary people. Performances Bunraku has such a strong impact on the audience that some pieces had to deny. For example, the play "The Suicide of lovers on the island of Celestial networks", similar to the story of "Romeo and Juliet" and based on a true story, was forbidden to display because it caused a lot of suicides.

Considered the capital of Osaka Bunraku over the years, and today the art of Bunraku is strongly associated with the city. National Bunraku Theater in Osaka is located in Tyuoku, Sennitidori quarter. This is the fourth state theater in Japan and the main bunraku theater in the country. The theater troupe spends most of the year touring the country and abroad and gives representation in Osaka in January, April, June, August and November, each "home" session lasts approximately 15-20 days.

The first theater in Osaka was built in 1872 in the quarter and was called Bunrakudza Dotombori. In 1984, the theater moved to a new modern building, and was called by the National Bunraku Theater. Moving and renaming the theater even provoked protests from indigenous people of Osaka, but giving the status of the theater of an important cultural heritage to reconcile them with these changes.

The building of the National Theatre consists of five floors on the main and small halls, rooms for rehearsals and lectures, the dressing room, as well as a museum and restaurants. In the theater, storytellers are 28, 19, 37 musicians and puppeteers, as well as craftsmen who made dolls and engaged in their repair.