Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門, real name Sugimori Nobumori, 1653 - January 6, 1724) was a Japanese dramatist of Jōruri , the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as Bunraku, and the live-actor drama, Kabuki.

Works

Jōruri

• Shusse Kagekiyo (1685)
• Sonezaki Shinju (1703)
• Tamba Yosaku (1708)
• Meido no Hikyaku (1711)
• Kokusenya Kassen (1715)
• Shinju Ten no Amishima (1720)
• Onnagoroshi Abura no Jigoku (1721)

Kabuki

• Keisei Hotoke no Hara

See also

• Japanese literature
• List of Japanese authors
• Gagaku