Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon was a Japanese dramatist of jruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. Encyclopdia Britannica writes that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist. " His most notable plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers.
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