Chikamatsu monzaemon biography summary of 10th class science

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. His work "Shusse Kagekiyo" is said to be the forerunner of early modern age joruri. Monzaemon wrote more than 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 "Kokusenya Kassen. At around the same time KI no Kaion also wrote a joruri play based on love suicides - the same topic used by Monzaemon - and indeed love suicides inspired by these plays became fashionable.

Chikamatsu monzaemon biography summary of 10th class science: Chikamatsu was born Sugimori Nobumori, the

However only until after the Meiji period were the sewamono joruri plays of Monzaemon critically acclaimed. Monzaemon is believed to have stated that the appeal of art lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal called the 'kyojitsuhimaku' theory. When he was a child Monzaemon's name was Jirokichi. His real name was Nobumori.