Kakita Seiichi

Please note: This article is about the artisan. For other uses of the term, please see Seiichi (disambiguation).
Kakita Seiichi was an artisan and head of the Warai Puppet Troupe. He bargained with spirits from sakkaku to gain artistic success, but he increasingly regretted having done so. Path of Waves, p. 159 The troupe had been a family-owned fixture for many years, and Seiichi continued a lineage of ownership going back almost eighty years, when his great-grandfather took ownership of the troupe as part of a marriage treaty- The troupe had enjoyed reasonable and consistent success, but it began to falter, its performances becoming lackluster and unoriginal. Seiichi was visited by a mysterious spirit and bargained to allow the spirit and its fellows to use the puppets as their physical forms. The theater's new performances involved the puppets, which seemed to move and speak of their own volition. Almost overnight, the troupe's performances changed, becoming well-known for their mirthful comedy, high drama, and commanding and engaging presence on the stage, and this fame spread beyond Hirosaka. Eventually a group of samurai uncovered that the puppets were possesed by spirits, and that they were responsible to commit petty crimes which had escalated in seriousness. Path of Waves, pp. 171-172
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