Editing Tokoyama (section)

==={{Transliteration|ja|Bunraku}}===
In {{Transliteration|ja|[[bunraku]]}}, puppets are coiffed like real actors.<ref name="jafoundation">{{cite web|url=https://performingarts.jpf.go.jp/E/art_interview/1006/1.html|title=Another fascination of Bunraku - The world of the "tokoyama" hair designer. Akiko Takahashi (Bunraku puppet hair dressing artist)|work=[[Japan Foundation]]|date=20 July 2010|accessdate=8 January 2024}}</ref> {{Transliteration|ja|Bunraku}} puppet theater is organized into two guilds. One, the {{Transliteration|ja|Bunraku Kyokai}}, groups together the artists ({{Transliteration|ja|[[shamisen]]}} players, puppeteers and narrators), while the other, the National Bunraku Theatre, groups together the support professions (costume and doll-head stewards). {{Transliteration|ja|Tokoyama}} belong to the latter organization.<ref name="jafoundation"/> Unlike in kabuki, the {{Transliteration|ja|tokoyama}} in {{Transliteration|ja|bunraku}} are responsible for both creating the wig and styling it.<ref name="jafoundation"/> In {{Transliteration|ja|bunraku}}, the {{Transliteration|ja|tokoyama}} receives instructions from the {{Transliteration|ja|kashirawari-iin}}, a theater steward selecting puppet heads from about 400 options, to show subtle differences in what the characters are expressing.{{sfn|Leiter|2006|pp=319-320}} Once the wig has been chosen, the {{Transliteration|ja|tokoyama}} is then responsible for styling it to match the puppet.{{sfn|Leiter|2006|pp=319-320}} There are about 120 different hairstyles, with about 80 for men and 40 for women.<ref name="jafoundation"/>