This man wrote of the military strategy of filling metal tubes with bees and gunpowder, the bees to sting the enemy and the gunpowder to blow them up if they try to burn the bees, and he dubs art "something that exists in the slender margin between the real and the unreal" in a quotation in Souvenirs of Naniwa.  
In one of this man's works, the female protagonist offers a man nicknamed "Hard Luck" ten gold pieces to solicit a prostitute, but that man vows to invest in oil trading instead.  This man wrote of the military strategy of filling metal tubes with bees and gunpowder, the bees to sting the enemy and the gunpowder to blow them up if they try to burn the bees, and he dubs art "something that exists in the slender margin between the real and the unreal" in a quotation in Souvenirs of Naniwa.  In addition to The Uprooted Pine, he wrote a work that features a counselor named Go Sankei and ends with Emperor Eiryaku's coronation, and his most famous play ends with the deaths of O Hatsu and Tokubei.  FTP, name this playwright of The Battles of Coxinga, and the Love Suicides plays, a master of the bunraku and kabuki theater.
In one of this man's works, the female protagonist offers a man nicknamed "Hard Luck" ten gold pieces to solicit a prostitute, but that man vows to invest in oil trading instead.  
{Chikamatsu} Monzaemon or {Sugimori} Nobumori (accept either, accept