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The Love Suicides at Amijima

(心中天網島) (Shinjū ten no Amijima)

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First Staged: 1720
Reference: Major Plays of Chikamatsu, translated by Donald Keene, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961); Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 224, February 1984; Bunraku October 1986 Performance Program

Written By: Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)

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