text: One of this author's plays starts in a post office which blames delays on the rain, though in reality an employee is embezzling their money shipments.
full_question: One of this author's plays starts in a post office which blames delays on the rain, though in reality an employee is embezzling their money shipments. He wrote a scene in which a man under a porch communicates with a woman sitting above it by pressing her foot to his throat, in a work that features a pine tree and a palm growing from the same shoot. This author of The Courier for Hell also wrote a work whose title is a metaphor for buying out a courtesan's contract and which focuses heavily on New Years' traditions. This author of The Uprooted Pine wrote of Tokubei and Ohatsu, who go to the Wood of Tenjin to die after finding out they cannot be together. For 10 points, name this prominent creator of bunraku puppet theater, the Japanese playwright of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.
first_sentence: One of this author's plays starts in a post office which blames delays on the rain, though in reality an employee is embezzling their money shipments.
raw_answer: Chikamatsu Monzaemon [or Sugimori Nobumori]