Puppet theatre, three to a figure. Sagami Ningyo is the puppet drama of western Kanagawa, around Odawara and Atsugi—the same three-handler technique as Bunraku, carried east from the Kyoto-Osaka region in the Edo period and rooted, over time, in the villages here. Today it is kept alive by preservation societies. The people who work the puppets have other jobs—office workers, farmers—and they rehearse and take the stage in their spare hours. The heads are carved by local hands, and puppets passed down through generations are still in use; the oldest are two centuries old, the wood gone glossy with handling. This is an art that nearly vanished and then held on. At one point the line almost broke, and local people gathered it back up. There is nothing flashy about it. But puppets that exist nowhere else are moving, here, in the place that made them—and that turns out to be enough.