Bunraku Picture gallery from the Hoikusha Collection

Moralistic tales of Sugawara Michizane (Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami) Premiered 1746

Matsuo and his wife contemplate suicide. Suicide was an act of loyalty common in most puppet tales.

The eternal weir in the Katsura River
(Katsura Gawa Renri no shigarami) premiered 1776

Ohan sadly peeks out of the door as she thinks of her sad fate of being married to a man twice her age.

Double Suicide at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinju) premiered 1703