tokyo karakuri yagura

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board describing the famous Karakuri Yagura, Ningyocho Mechanical Clock Towers. Tokyo, Japan. When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan. Long before the advent of its world-leading robotics, clockwork and wind-up automata called karakuri were all the rage in Japan from the 17th-century onwards. Traditional wooden puppets on the outside, some of them could carry cups of tea to their guests or notch arrows and shoot them. Quite fond of novelty, the people of feudal Japan (especially those who could afford one) embraced them as a popular form of entertainment.