Scholars are puzzled by the narrator's initial nonsense seven lines, which precede both his description of the songs of the Shell River and its first scene, where Sugi gives a minstrel money to sing a song from the writer's earlier work about General Watonai.
Donald Keene claims this work's tragedy plays out between its women while the male hero "sits in a stupor." Scholars are puzzled by the narrator's initial nonsense seven lines, which precede both his description of the songs of the Shell River and its first scene, where Sugi gives a minstrel money to sing a song from the writer's earlier work about General Watonai. At the beginning of Diary of a Mad Old Man, Utsugi goes to see its Teahouse scene, where Magoemon, aiding Osan's father, is mistakenly convinced that Koharu is asleep and that his paper merchant brother Jihei is not there, so he need not worry about a fatal pact. For 10 points, name this 1723 bunraku by Chikamatsu which, while partially set at Sonezaki, is not named for it.
Donald Keene claims this work's tragedy plays out between its women while the male hero "sits in a stupor.
{Love Suicides at Amijima} [or {Shinju Ten no Amijima}]