This author wrote about soldiers cutting off the strings of their cap heads to prevent a suicide in his Tethered Steed and the Eight Provinces of the East.
This author wrote about soldiers cutting off the strings of their cap heads to prevent a suicide in his Tethered Steed and the Eight Provinces of the East. In one work by this author, Oyodo is a sadist and forces Yoshiteru to kill other women for her pleasure, while in another story, Umewaka dies at the title location even though Hanjo and Matsuwaka are reunited. In addition to [?] Lovers Pond in Settsu Province, and Twins at Sumida River, Donald Keene heavily worked to make his The Courier for Hell and Gonza the Lancer accessible. This author is also known for writing about a woman that shoves her lover under a porch and uses her feet to communicate in a play that ends with a double suicide at Sonezaki. For ten points, name this foremost Japanese dramatist of the 17th century.
This author wrote about soldiers cutting off the strings of their cap heads to prevent a suicide in his Tethered Steed and the Eight Provinces of the East.
{Chikamatsu} Monzaemon