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        3. This study guide for Monzaemon Chikamatsu's Four Major Plays offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text.
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          6. This study guide for Monzaemon Chikamatsu's Four Major Plays offers summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text....

          Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)

          Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU (1653 - January 6, 1725) was a kabuki and joruri (ballad drama) playwright who wrote many great works during the Genroku era in the early Edo period.

          His real name was Nobumori SUGIMORI. He is believed to have been born in either Echizen Province, Suo Province or Nagato Province.

          Monzaemon was first an in-house joruri playwright at Takemoto-za theater, later becoming a kabuki and kyogen (a generic term for a Kabuki drama) playwright midway through his career, before returning to write joruri again.

          The celebrated Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon () described Ezo in the joryuri (J: dramatic recitation) drama Kenjo no Tenarai (A Wise.

          His work "Shusse Kagekiyo" is said to be the forerunner of early modern age joruri. Monzaemon wrote more than 100 joruri plays. Of these, about twenty are "sewamono" (domestic dramas dealing with the lives of commoners) and the rest are "jidaimono" (historical dramas).

          The subject matter of sewamono included the duties and obligations, or humanity, of the townspeople. The most popular plays at that time however were jidaimono, notably