ningyo
This ningyo, Japanese puppet, is three puppets in one and was manipulated skillfully by the puppet-master in a performance of the shishi-mai, lion dance, in an Edo era puppet show that I attended last year in Tokyo’s picturesque Rikugien Park.
As a finlae, the puppet-master flipped up the skirt of the lion to reveal the two ningyo dancers beneaththe costume and the audience rewarded him with a collective gasp of “sugoi!” (wow!) and a loud round of applause.
