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Chikamatsu, Monzaemon (1653-1725)

Japanese dramatist. He wrote over 150 plays for the puppet and kabuki theatres in Osaka. His plays for puppets were usually either domestic tragedies such as The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703), or heroic historical dramas like The Battles of Coxinga (1715). The plays are written in prose.

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