Karakuri puppet

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Karakuri puppets (からくり人形, karakuri ningyō) are traditional Japanese mechanized puppets or automata, made from the 17th century to the 19th century. The dolls' gestures provided a form of entertainment. The word karakuri has also come to mean "mechanisms" or "trick" in Japanese.^[1] It is used to describe any device that evokes a sense of awe through concealment of its inner workings.^[2]

The name karakuri is thought to come from the Japanese verb karakuru, which means "to pull, stretch, and move a thread".^[3] It is alternatively written in kanji as 絡繰り, 絡繰, 機巧, 機関, and archaically as 唐繰.