Tuesday, February 12, 2019: Legendary fifth-generation Japanese puppet master KORYU NISHIKAWA V returns to Toronto with HACHIOJI KURUMA NINGYO for the company’s first full-scale production in Canada ...

103 103 people viewed this event. JCCC presents a full-scale production that features three female-focused stories from classic Japanese literature with live shamisen players and chanters. Performed ...

Created by Tom Lee and Japanese Master Puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V, Shank’s Mare is the story of two wandering travelers whose paths intersect in time and space. Using traditional kuruma ningyo ...

For many kids, a puppet is a toy, wrapped around a hand or even a single finger like a decorated mitten. For young Koryu Nishikawa V, puppets were a business that had been in his family for more than ...

Last Saturday at the Kahului Public Library, fifth-generation master puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V presented a free workshop of his family’s Kuruma Ningyo style of puppetry — a 160-year-old form related ...

Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo is a form of puppet theatre created by Nishikawa Koryu I nearly 150 years ago, in the late Edo Period. The one-to-one relationship between puppeteer and puppet in Kuruma Ningyo ...

Shank's Mare is an internationally renowned puppet theatre piece by Tom Lee and Japanese Master of the cart-puppet form, Koryu Nishikawa V of Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo. Shanks Mare is the story of two ...

AKUTAGAWA is a stage portrait of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, father of the modern Japanese short novel and best known for In a Grove, the basis of Akira Kurosawa's landmark 1950 film Rashomon. Told through ...