One eleven part work in this genre is the only one to have a prologue preceding the first part; that work opens with Hangan's wife being asked to identify her husband's helmet. The hero of another work in this style takes an oath that exactly specifies his true manner of death at the hands of the master of the True Table ceremony. This genre's "domestic plays" include the sordid love story between the nephew of an oil merchant and a courtesan. This successor genre to joruri is exemplified by Kanahedon Chushingura, a work about the 47 ronin. The author of Gonza the Lancer created two "double suicide" works in this genre, which uses shamisens playing the lowest registers and chanters to express the emotions of the central characters, who are manipulated by a master his two apprentices. Chikamatsu popularized, for 10 points, what genre of Japanese puppet theater?
One eleven part work in this genre is the only one to have a prologue preceding the first part; that work opens with Hangan's wife being asked to identify her husband's helmet. The hero of another work in this style takes an oath that exactly specifies his true manner of death at the hands of the master of the True Table ceremony. This genre's "domestic plays" include the sordid love story between the nephew of an oil merchant and a courtesan. This successor genre to joruri is exemplified by Kanahedon Chushingura, a work about the 47 ronin. The author of Gonza the Lancer created two "double suicide" works in this genre, which uses shamisens playing the lowest registers and chanters to express the emotions of the central characters, who are manipulated by a master his two apprentices. Chikamatsu popularized, for 10 points, what genre of Japanese puppet theater?
One eleven part work in this genre is the only one to have a prologue preceding the first part; that work opens with Hangan's wife being asked to identify her husband's helmet.
bunraku [accept Japanese puppet theater until mention; prompt on "puppet theater" before mention; accept joruri until mention; prompt on Japanese theater until the end; antiprompt on love suicide plays from "sordid love story" until mention; prompt on Chikamatsu's plays from the second sentence until mentioned; prompt on Izumo's plays for the entire tossup; accept plays for theater at any point]