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| | Encyclopedia article on Kabuki [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Kabuki theater and ningyō jōruri, the elaborate form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, became closely associated with each other during this period, and each has since influenced the development of the other. |
 | | The famous playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon — one of the first professional playwrights of kabuki — produced several influential works, though the piece usually acknowledged as his most significant, Sonezaki Shinju (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), was originally written for bunraku. |
 | | Like many bunraku plays, however, it was adapted for kabuki, and it spawned many imitators — in fact, it and similar plays reportedly caused so many real-life "copycat" suicides that the government banned shinju mono (plays about lovers' double suicides) in 1723. |
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