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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中, Sonezaki Shinjū) is a jōruri play by the Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The double suicides that occurred on May 22, 1703 inspired Chikamatsu to write this play and thus The Love Suicides at Sonezaki made its debut performance on June 20, 1703. Chikamatsu added new scenes in the 1717 revival including the villain's punishment. The Love Suicides at Sonezaki's reception was popular and helped springboard Chikamatsu's future success as a playwright.[1] In the first year alone since the play's premiere, no less than seventeen couples committed double suicide.[2] In fact, the bakufu banned Chikamatsu's shinjū plays in 1722 because of their content's popularity.[3]The Love Suicides at Sonezaki was Chikamatsu's first "domestic tragedy" or "domestic play" (sewamono) and his first love-suicide play[1] (shinjūmono). Until this play, the common topic for jōruri was jidaimono or "history plays" while kabuki performances showed domestic plays.[4]The Love Suicides at Sonezaki separates into three scenes, staged over a day and a night. The two central characters are an orphaned oil clerk named Tokubei and Ohatsu, the courtesan he loves.[1] There is a beginning scene that shows Ohatsu going on a pilgrimage that performances and translations often leave out.[4] This play also includes a religious aspect involving Confucianism and Buddhism.[3]
^ abcChikamatsu, Monzaemon (1990) [1961]. Major Plays of Chikamatsu. Translated by Keene, Donald. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 5–6, 15–17, 39–56. ISBN 0-231-07414-X.
^The Great Mirror of Love Suicides (Shinjū ōkagami, 1704), cited in Adam L. Kern. Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan. 2006. Second Edition with a New Preface. Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center, 2019, 206, citing Fiorillo, John. "Tragedy and Laughter in the Floating World: Shinjū in the Works of Utamaro and Kyōden. Andon, vol. 54 (1996), 3-23, 7.
^ abHeine, Steven (1994). "Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse". The Journal of Asian Studies. doi:10.2307/2059839. JSTOR 2059839. S2CID 162289025.
^ abBrownstein, Michael (2006). "The Osaka Kannon Pilgrimage and Chikamatsu's 'Love Suicides at Sonezaki'". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 66: 7–41 – via JSTOR.
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