[つかう, tsukau] (v5u, vt) (1) to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; (2) (See 人使い) to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; (3) to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume; (4) (See 言葉遣い) to use (language); to speak; (5) (id) to take (one's lunch); to circulate (bad money); (P) #1049
[にんぎょう, ningyou] (n) doll; puppet; figure; (P) #3006
[あやつる, ayatsuru] (v5r, vt) (1) to manipulate; to operate; to handle; to operate (e.g. a machine); to steer (a ship); (2) to have a good command of (a language); to be fluent in; (3) to operate a puppet; to pull the strings of a puppet; (4) to mastermind; to pull the strings; to control from the shadows; (5) (arch) to play (a musical instrument); (P) #8677
[あやつり, ayatsuri] (n) manipulation; puppet #11703
[ちゅうしんぐら, chuushingura] (n) (See 浄瑠璃) performance or narrative based on the story of the Forty-seven Ronin (esp. the Kanadehon Chushingura, an epic puppet play first performed in 1748) #12314
[かいらい;くぐつ, kairai ; kugutsu] (n) (1) puppet; dummy; (2) (arch) prostitute #17435
[からくりにんぎょう, karakuriningyou] (n) mechanical doll; automaton; string puppet; marionette; person who follows orders blindly
[sokkupapetto] (n) sock puppet
[パクパクにんぎょう, pakupaku ningyou] (n) puppet with a moving mouth
[えんこう, enkou] (n) (1) monkey (esp. a gibbon); (2) (See 人形浄瑠璃・1) hand of the puppeteer (puppet theatre); (3) (sl) menstrual period; (4) (See 河童・1) kappa
[かんげんはぐうじんをよろこばす, kangenhaguujinwoyorokobasu] (exp) (id) sweet words only please a fool (prov); flattery works on puppets and fools
[ぎだゆう, gidayuu] (n) (abbr) (See 義太夫節) gidayuu (type of reciting used in the puppet theater); (P)
[ぎだゆうぶし, gidayuubushi] (n) (See 義太夫) gidayuu ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)
[ぐうじん, guujin] (n) puppet; doll
[ざつげい;ぞうげい, zatsugei ; zougei] (n) (1) (See 猿楽・さるがく・1) various form of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetery, sarugaku acrobatics performance); (2) (See 歌謡) miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period
[ゆびにんぎょう, yubiningyou] (n) hand puppet; glove puppet
[いとをひく, itowohiku] (exp, v5k) (1) to pull (the puppet) strings; to direct things from behind the scenes; (2) to stretch out (and keep going); to linger on
[じさくじえん, jisakujien] (n, vs) (1) performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; (2) doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); (3) put-up job; charade; (4) sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the internet)
[てづまにんぎょう, tedumaningyou] (n) var. of puppet popular in the Edo period
[じょうるり, joururi] (n) type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with the Japanese puppet theater)
[にんぎょうをつかう, ningyouwotsukau] (exp, v5u) to manipulate puppets; to pull wires
[にんぎょうまわし, ningyoumawashi] (n) puppet operator
[にんぎょうげき, ningyougeki] (n) puppet show
[にんぎょうつかい;にんぎょうづかい, ningyoutsukai ; ningyoudukai] (n) (See 使い・つかい・4) puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
[にんぎょうしばい, ningyoushibai] (n) puppet show
[にんぎょうじょうるり, ningyoujoururi] (n) (1) (See 浄瑠璃) Japanese puppet theatre in which a narrative is accompanied by a shamisen; (2) (See 文楽) older and more neutral name for bunraku
[みずからくり, mizukarakuri] (n) puppet powered by (falling) water; water-powered contrivance; show using such a device (in Edo-period Osaka)
[あやつりしばい, ayatsurishibai] (n) puppet show
[あやつりにんぎょう, ayatsuriningyou] (n) puppet; marionette
[そうほう, souhou] (n) (See 文楽) manipulation techniques (e.g. puppets); handling techniques
[ちゃり, chari] (n) (1) funny word or gesture; (2) funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.); (3) (arch) (See 揉み上げ・もみあげ) a woman's temple hair
[かしらつかい, kashiratsukai] (n) puppeteer for the head
[なんばん, nanban] (n) (1) (arch) (derog) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (2) (arch) South-East Asia; (3) (arch) (See 紅毛・2) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); (pref) (4) exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (n) (5) (usu.ナンバ) (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); (6) (abbr) (See 南蛮煮・なんばんに・2) food prepared using chili peppers or Welsh onions; (P)
[ぶんらく, bunraku] (n) Japanese puppet theatre (theater); bunraku; (P)
[まんしゅうこく, manshuukoku] (n) Manchukuo (Manchurian prewar Japanese puppet state)
[でく, deku] (n) wooden figure or doll; puppet
[からくり, karakuri] (n) (1) (uk) mechanism; machinery; contrivance; device; (2) (uk) trick; dodge; (3) (uk) (abbr) (See からくり人形) mechanical doll; string puppet
[かいらいし, kairaishi] (n) puppet player; wirepuller
[かいらいせいけん, kairaiseiken] (n) puppet government (regime)
[かいらいせいふ, kairaiseifu] (n) puppet government