For 10 points, The Battles of Coxinga and several plays about love suicides are among the works of what Japanese dramatist?
Donald Shively criticized Donald Keene's dismissal of the "stylistic fripperies" of this author's works. Andrew Gerstle wrote about convention in this man's works in Circles of Fantasy, and translated several of his works, including Twins at the Sumida Festival and Tethered Steed and the Eight Provinces of Kanto. Kagekiyo Victorious was the first work he wrote for the chanter Gidayu. A dialogue between Bunzo and Oshu appears in The Courtesan on Buddha Plain, his most popular kabuki, but his best-known works are in the joruri genre, the predecessor of bunraku. For 10 points, The Battles of Coxinga and several plays about love suicides are among the works of what Japanese dramatist?
Donald Shively criticized Donald Keene's dismissal of the "stylistic fripperies" of this author's works.
{Chikamatsu} Monzaemon [or {Sugimori Nobumori}]