Plays > The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

(曽根崎心中) (Sonezaki shinjū)

View all related images.

First Staged: 1703
Reference: Major Plays of Chikamatsu, translated by Donald Keene, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961); Keene, Donald, Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973); Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Bunraku February 1984, February 1981 Performance Programs

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

Performances:

Kashira:

Characters:

Images: