Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu

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. Thi

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century