Chikamatsu Monzaemon zenshū / Takano Tatsuyuki, Kuroki Kanzō kōtei.,近松門左衛門全集 / 高野辰之, 黑木勘藏校訂・ Volume v.1 1924 [Leather Bound]

by Chikamatsu Monzaemon

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678 pages, Leather Bound

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Born in Japan in 1653 with the name of "Sugimore Nobumori", Chikamatsu Monzaemon was to become perhaps the greatest dramatist in the history of the Japanese theatre.
Chikamatsu is said to have written over one hundred plays, most of which were written for the bunraku or puppet theatre. His works combine comedy and tragedy, poetry and prose, and present scenes of combat, torture, and suicide on stage. Most of Chikamatsu's domestic tragedies are based an actual events. His Sonezaki shinju (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), for example, was based on reports of an actual double suicide of the apprentice clerk and his lover.
But he wrote some famous historical plays, too.

In 1705, Chikamatsu moved to Osaka where he became a writer for Takemoto Gidayu's puppet theatre and remained here until his death in 1725.