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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon

 orig. Sugimori Nobumori

(born 1653, Echizen, Japan—died Jan. 6, 1725, Osaka) Japanese playwright. Born into a samurai family, he was attached to the court aristocracy at Kyoto before moving to Osaka to be near its puppet theatre. He is credited with more than 100 plays, mainly historical romances and domestic tragedies, many based on actual incidents. Most were written for the bunraku, which he raised to artistic heights. His most popular work was The Battles of Coxinga (1715), a historical melodrama based on the life of Zheng Chenggong. Also famous is Double Suicide at Amijima (1720). He is widely regarded as the greatest of Japanese dramatists.



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