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	Monzaemon Chikamatsu - Encyclopedia.com
		Chikamatsu wrote primarily for the puppet stage in the Tokugawa shogunate.
		Oswald's adaptation of an 18th-century epic by Chikamatsu Monzaemon yields moments of illumination on a tradition...
		And in "Sonezaki Shinju," the 18th-century drama by Chikamatsu Monzaemon depicted by the artists of Bunraku-a tale of self-doomed lovers-one saw the kind of emotional universality and...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Chikamat.html (918 words)

	Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
		Born in Echizen, 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.
		Chikamatsu's most famous play, the Kikusenya Kassen or Battles of the Kikusenya, tells the story of a Tarter king's invasion of China after his demand for the Ming emperor's favorite concubine as the price of friendship is denied.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc62.html (410 words)

	Monzaemon, Chikamatsu Criticism and Essays
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon has been called the Japanese Shakespeare, an allusion to his status as the Japanese national playwright and a reflection of his success in the popular theater.
		Chikamatsu was born as Sugimori Nobumori in the province of Echizen (which is now in the Fukui prefecture) in 1653, the son of a samurai.
		Chikamatsu's sewamono were innovative for the joruri in their focus on contemporary events—sometimes dramatizing stories only a few weeks old—and in their focus on characters from the lower classes, sometimes merchants, often orphans and prostitutes.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/monzaemon-chikamatsu (1510 words)

	Chickamatsu Monzaemon
		Chikamatsu is even sometimes called the "Japanese Shakespeare," though he is certainly not that.
		Chikamatsu wrote plays about middle-class characters with domestic love problems--a merchant falling in love with a geisha and ruining his life, until the only way out seems to be a double suicide--after which the lovers expect to spend eternity on the same lotus leaf, a strange kind of religious hold-over in this distinctly secular world.
		Chikamatsu's reason for prefering bunraku was probably that, while the maker of the puppets, and the trained puppeteers are certainly also important artists involved in the production of a puppet play, when it comes to the dynamics of performance, all is in the service of the playwright's script, which is most highly honored.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Chickamatsu.html (880 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Chikamatsu Monzaemon
		If it' human nature to try to define the unfamiliar in familiar terms, perhaps it was inevitable that Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japan's most revered dramatist, would be labeled by the West as the "Japanese Shakespeare." While of course there will never be another Shakespeare, this assessment is not entirely wide of the mark.
		Chikamatsu was born Sugimori Nobumori in 1653, in the province of Echizen (modern-day Fukui Prefecture.) His father, a samurai, gave up his feudal responsibilities in the late 1660s and moved the family to Kyoto.
		Chikamatsu may have had his first brush with the theater while serving in a nobleman's house as a teenager; probably he met a patron of joruri (puppet theater).
	metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive299/265/biginjapaninc.htm (469 words)

	Chikamatsu Monzaemon information - Search.com
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Japanese: 近松門左衛門; real name Sugimori Nobumori, 杉森信盛, 1653–6 January 1724) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.
		Chikamatsu is known as the Japanese Shakespeare, for his assortment of plays staged by puppets in the early era of bunraku stage plays.
		Chikamatsu was the first known Japanese playwright to not also act in the pieces he wrote.
	www.search.com /reference/Chikamatsu_Monzaemon (302 words)

	Chikamatsu Monzaemon Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) is best known for his tragedies involving ordinary men and women in the kansai, or western part, of Japan, where his works were first presented in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
		Chikamatsu's use of lower class characters in his tragedies is rather unique in world drama, where tragic characters have most often been members of the upper classes.
		For Chikamatsu, the challenge of the puppet theatre was to impart lifeless puppets with a variety of emotions and thereby capture the audience's attention.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/chikamatsu-monzaemon (1842 words)

	FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS
		Chikamatsu was the second son born to his father, Suginomori Nobuyoshi, a samurai (Japanese warrior and civil servant) descendent of a court noble.
		The dramas of Chikamatsu are infused with the samurai ethic.
		Chikamatsu wrote for one-man puppets, which were not nearly as capable of portraying intricate movements as are the modern three-man puppets.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/9900/fair/PNfair.shtml (10126 words)

	Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu -- Monzaemon Chikamatsu Donald Keene
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today by puppet operators and Kabuki actors.
		Chikamatsu is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition of four of his most important plays includes three popular domestic dramas and one history play.
		Chikamatsu's domestic dramas are accurate reflections of Japanese society at the time: his characters are samurai, farmers, merchants, and prostitutes who speak colloquially, and who people the shops, streets, teahouses, and brothels that constituted their daily environment.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0231111010 (185 words)

	Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Bunraku
		The greatest works by Japan's most famous playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653~1724) are bunraku plays, many of which are written around this kind of conflict.
		Like kabuki before it, in the 1600's bunraku became the common man's equivalent of the noh, which only the aristocracy were allowed to study.
		Chikamatsu's Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703, Sonezaki Shinju) is equivalent in stature and theme to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/bunraku.shtml (569 words)

	Monzaemon Chikamatsu Room (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jyoruri (Japanese puppet play) and Kabuki are Japanese traditional performing arts, and Monzaemon Chikamatsu, who lived in the Edo period, is one of the greatest playwrights.
		Chikamatsu's personality is described in "Understanding Monzaemon Chikamatsu", while performers and puppets that are indispensable to Jyoruri theater are explained in "Tayu (Jyoruri performer) and Puppet".
		Additionally, Chikamatsu himself will be your guide in the "Virtual Playhouse Experience" where you can walk through playhouses and cityscapes of the time in a virtual reality setting.
	www.bungaku.pref.hyogo.jp /kikaku/chikamatsu/eng/index.html (134 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Chikamatsu Monzaemon
		If it' human nature to try to define the unfamiliar in familiar terms, perhaps it was inevitable that Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japan's most revered dramatist, would be labeled by the West as the "Japanese Shakespeare." While of course there will never be another Shakespeare, this assessment is not entirely wide of the mark.
		A fair portion of Chikamatsu's writing was for kabuki, most of it for Sakata Toujuuro, a top actor of the time.
		Ultimately, though, like Shakespeare, Chikamatsu has become known as a great playwright of the distant past whose work is difficult for many to understand today.
	www.metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive299/265/biginjapaninc.htm (469 words)

	SAKATA TÔJÛRÔ IV
		June 1954: Senjaku plays for the first time in Ôsaka the role of the courtesan Ohatsu in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's masterpiece "Sonezaki Shinjû", which is performed at the Ôsaka Kabukiza; the role of Hiranoya Tokubei is played by Nakamura Ganjirô II.
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon's masterpiece "Sonezaki Shinjû" is performed with Ganjirô and his son Nakamura Kanjaku in the roles of Temmaya Ohatsu and Hiranoya Tokubei.
		The program is made up of the dance "Bô Shibari" and Chikamatsu Monzaemon's masterpiece "Sonezaki Shinjû"; Ganjirô plays the role of Temmaya Ohatsu in the latter drama [more details].
	www.kabuki21.com /tojuro4.php (1221 words)

	Chikamatsu; Five Late Plays; C. Andrew Gerstle
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters.
		Translations of Chikamatsu's plays are available, but we have few examples of his late work, in which he increasingly incorporated stylistic elements of his shorter, contemporary dramas into his longer period pieces.
		Translator C. Andrew Gerstle argues that in these mature history plays, Chikamatsu depicted the tension between the private and public spheres of society by combining the rich character development of his contemporary pieces with the larger political themes of his period pieces.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231121660.HTM (426 words)

	Bunraku - Japanese Puppetry
		Many of its most famous plays were written by Japan's greatest dramatist, Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724), and the great skill of the operators make the puppet characters and their stories come alive on stage.
		There has been much debate as to why Chikamatsu turned to writing for kabuki and then returned to bunraku, but this may have been the result of dissatisfaction with the relative position of the playwright and actor in kabuki.
		This masterpiece of Chikamatsu Monzaemon was the first of the new genre of domestic drama (sewa-mono) plays focusing on the conflicts between human emotions and the severe restrictions and obligations of contemporary society.
	www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp /JapanAccess/bunraku.htm (2040 words)

	鯖江市 - English - Contents
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon is a great writer of Jorurui (puppet plays) and Kabuki scripts.
		Chikamatsu lived in Sabae in his youth when he was most sensitive and emotional.
		There are many monuments such as "Monument of Yoshie Fedual Clan"in front of Yoshie Public Hall, "Chikamatsu bronze statue" in Shiryou Kan in Sabae city, and "Tombstone of Chikamatsu Monzaemon" in Tachimachi Public Hall.
	www.city.sabae.fukui.jp /english/culture/chikamatsu.html (713 words)

	EALL Faculty and Staff Bios
		His dissertation and subsequent publications centered on the Meiji Period writer Kitamura Tokoku (1868-1894) and Meiji Period literary thought, especially the impact of Western literary criticism on Japanese writers in the late 19th century.
		His current research interests, however, concern the Tokugawa Period dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725).
		Brownstein is working on a book-length critical study of Chikamatsu's "contemporary life" plays as well as a companion volume of translations of three Chikamatsu plays.
	www.nd.edu /~eall/bios/brownstein.html (134 words)

	Shinju Introduction
		Chikamatsu further complicates matters by creating a relationship of mutual obligation and respect between Koharu and Osan.
		Chikamatsu’s dramatic structure of opposing worlds underlines the consequences of the decision which make the timing so difficult.
		Biography of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and analysis of the chief characteristics of
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /japanese/chikamatsu/shinju/kennelly-shinju.html (1148 words)

	The Global Theater Wa no Wa 《catering-Monzaemon Chikamatsu "Love Suicide at Amijima"》
		Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Japan premiere which were made only from the women.
		This year was the 350th anniversary of Monzaemon Chikamatsu's birth, and the 400th years of KABUKI was born.
		As an actress who has studied Zennsinnza thinks that it was very meaningful work that "Love Suicide at Amijima" was able to be made with the living national treasure of home Awaji-shima of doll JORURI, the Tomoji Tsurusawa teacher, and the Hatsumi Takemoto teacher of a gidayu.
	www.wanowa.org /en/stage/catering_tikamatu.html (936 words)

	Amagasaki,the City of Chikamatsu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Chikamatsu's works are performed, actors and actresses visit his tomb to pray for the performance's success.
		Each year on a Sunday around November 11 (the anniversary of Chikamatsu's death), a grand event, the Chikamatsu Festival, is held to honor his great work.
		Other entertainment includes Chikamatsu Ondo and a performance of the Joruri Club from the elementary school, which are shown at the neighboring Chikamatsu Memorial Museum.
	www.city.amagasaki.hyogo.jp /web/contents/info/city/city03/chikamatsu/english/C1_p1.html (221 words)

	Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Risultati della ricerca - MSN Encarta
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon - Risultati della ricerca - MSN Encarta
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon Pseudonimo di Sugimori Nobumori (1653-1724), primo drammaturgo giapponese a scrivere professionalmente per il teatro....
		I più importanti drammi kabuki vennero scritti verso la fine del XVII secolo da Chikamatsu Monzaemon, che traeva i suoi soggetti dal mito, dalla...
	it.encarta.msn.com /Chikamatsu_Monzaemon.html (81 words)

	Amagasaki,the City of Chikamatsu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their wide range of activities include "Monzaemon Lectureship" for reading Chikamatsu's works, "Monzaemon Goes", walking tours around the places related to the playwright's works, as well as puppetry performances of Chikamatsu's works and publication of the newsletter "Saezuri".
		Chikamatsu Ondo Hozonkai(Group to Spread the Chikamatsu Ondo)
		Every year, the school's students learn about Chikamatsu, including a course titled"Becoming Familiar with Chikamatsu", as part of their educational program.
	www.city.amagasaki.hyogo.jp /web/contents/info/city/city03/chikamatsu/english/C4_p1.html (151 words)

	The Love Suicide at Amijima (1720)
		A Study of a Japanese Domestic Tragedy by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
		Originally published in 1953, the book is kept in print by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan.
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) is one of the best-known and most loved dramatists, who specialized in jôruri (puppet plays), which was the more serious medium of theatrical expression compared to kabuki.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/l/love-suicide-at-amijima.html (669 words)

	ＧＲＥＥＴＩＮＧ of December 2003
		Though born of a samurai family, Chikamatsu Monzaemon discarded his birthright as a samurai and went to Kyoto to be a writer after his father became masterless.
		Chikamatsu Monzaemon developed a new genre of drama through his work in ningyo joruri.
		When Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Takemoto Gidayu established the foundations of joruri, the puppets used in the plays were still each manipulated by a single puppeteer.
	www.yoyokaku.com /sub7e-45.htm (892 words)

	A Brief Introduction to the History of Bunraku
		In 1684 he decided to branch out and form his own theater, and was helped in his effort by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the greatest playwright in Japanese history, and Takeda Izumo, a famous theater owner and manager.
		The death of Chikamatsu and Ki brought the end of an era, but was also the beginning of the golden age of Bunraku.
		While new plays were mostly adaptations of earlier Chikamatsu and Ki works, the influence of Kabuki in the scale of the plays is clear.
	www.sagecraft.com /puppetry/definitions/Bunraku.hist.html (1295 words)

	Chikamatsu monogatari (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is a beautiful, haunting, and emotionally involving study of forbidden love between a rigid merchant's wife, Osan, and her devoted servant, Mohei, in 17th century Kyoto.
		"Chikamatsu" is a highly charged work, but I'm not entirely sure if I would call it a masterpiece on par with "Zangiku monogatari", "The Life of Oharu", "Ugetsu", "Sansho dayu", and "Princess Yang Kwei Fei" - Mizoguchi's richest and most beautiful films.
		Also, the sound quality of "Chikamatsu" is interestingly rich and astounding, but the film doesn't stay with you for a while like those aforementioned films.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0046851 (320 words)

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