Bunraku Puppets at Kaganawa Prefecture Museum of Cultural History, Yokohama.

Bunraku Puppets. Kaganawa Museum of Cultural History. Yokohama (2011)

I've always loved Bunraku and seeing those amazing puppets was a real gift for me. The Kaganawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History in Yokohama has two Bunraku puppets in exhibition and I could take some photographs of them. 

A 19-Century Zoetrope in Yokohama

Kaganawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Yokohama (2011)

Well, Japanese also enjoyed the last in technology and entertainment during finals of 19 century, the zoetrope, a simple machine to provoke the illusion of movement. I just saw one similar to the originals at Kaganawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History in Yokohama, Japan; they let you use it so I recorded how this thing works. A nice curiosity.

Zoetrope

If you have not seen before any original image of a zoetrope...: