This author collaborated with the chanter Gidayu on works like The Mirror of Craftsmen, and criticized laws mandating the execution of adulterous wives in The Almanac of Love and Gonza the Lancer.
According to Donald Keene, the major characteristics of this author's style include pivot words whose meaning changes depending on the words surrounding them, and chains of related words, or engo. This author collaborated with the chanter Gidayu on works like The Mirror of Craftsmen, and criticized laws mandating the execution of adulterous wives in The Almanac of Love and Gonza the Lancer. This playwright established a new genre of plays in a work in which the villanous Kuheiji causes the deaths of the prostitute Ohatsu and the clerk Tokubei. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of puppet plays like The Love Suicides at Amijima and The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.
According to Donald Keene, the major characteristics of this author's style include pivot words whose meaning changes depending on the words surrounding them, and chains of related words, or engo.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon