Chikamatsu Monzaemon, JapaneseBunraku Playwright (1653-1725)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Chikamatsu Monzaemon
• Known as: Sugimori Nobumori
• Birth: Unknown Date, 1653, Echizen Province (now part of Fukui Prefecture), Japan
• Death: January 6, 1725, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Language: Japanese
• Who he was: Japanese puppet-theater (bunraku) playwright; The Battle of Coxinga; The Love Suicide at Sonezaki; The Love Suicide at Amijima

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