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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

work by Chikamatsu

Also known as: “Sonezaki shinjū”

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discussed in biography

In Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Sonezaki shinjū (1703; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), for example, was written within a fortnight of the actual double suicide on which it is based. The haste of composition is not at all apparent even in this first example of Chikamatsu’s double-suicide plays, the archetype of his other…
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importance in Japanese literature

In Japan: Commerce, cities, and culture
…Shinjū ten no Amijima (1720; The Love Suicide of Amijima), the leading male and female characters in his sewamono dramas are unable to resolve the contradictions between giri and ninjō in this world and so die by shinjū (a suicide pact between lovers) in order to realize their love in…
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