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Chikamatsu Monzaemon

1653 - 1725

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Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門; 1653 – 6 January 1725), real name Sugimori Nobumori (杉森 信盛), 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. The Encyclopædia Britannica has written that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist". His most famous plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers. Of his puppet plays, around 70 are jidaimono (時代物) (historical romances) and 24 are sewamono (世話物) (domestic tragedies). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chikamatsu Monzaemon is the 1,347th most popular writer (up from 1,602nd in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 459th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among writers, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 1,347 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Mohr, Clodia Pulchra, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Giovanni Verga, Imru' al-Qais, and Martha Gellhorn. After him are Ken Robinson, Yan Fu, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Paul Scarron, Fredric Brown, and David C. H. Austin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1653, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 9. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland, Muhammad Azam Shah, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, André-Hercule de Fleury, Prince George of Denmark, and Claudia Felicitas of Austria. After him are Georg Muffat, Maria Amalia of Courland, Caspar van Wittel, Carlo Ruzzini, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1725, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 3. Before him are Peter the Great, and Alessandro Scarlatti. After him are Mahmud Hotak, José Benito de Churriguera, Arai Hakuseki, René de Froulay de Tessé, Jonathan Wild, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, and Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 402 out of 6,245. Before him are Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535), Koji Sasaki (1936), Shizuo Miyama (null), and Yamato Takeru (72). After him are Kentaro Miura (1966), Emperor Heizei (773), Emperor Kameyama (1249), Emperor Kōkō (830), Tadao Kobayashi (1930), and Koji Funamoto (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 25. Before him are Yosa Buson (1716), Mori Ōgai (1862), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), and Ono no Komachi (825). After him are Ihara Saikaku (1642), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ueda Akinari (1734), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Ryū Murakami (1952).

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