Takeda Puppet company
Takeda puppet has an old history, it is said that it started when the subordinate official of Omi province raised a puppet show stage for Takeda in the Kanbun year (around 1660) in Osaka’s Dotonbori district.This Takeda Puppet got its reputation from string and mechanical puppets, their popular puppet shows were always continuously full house.
Even today, we are performing what you call kabuki classic masterpieces: "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers" (Kanadehon Chushingura), "Sugawara", "Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees" (Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura), etc. Many famous authors of masterpieces, Takeda Izumo too, were descendants from this lineage.