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The Love Suicide of Hambei and Ochiyo

(心中宵庚申) (Shinjū Yoigōshin)

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First Staged: 1722
Reference: Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Bunraku May 1975, February 1982 Performance Program; Chikamatsu: 5 Late Plays, translated and annotated by C. Andrew Gerstle (New York: Columbia University Press, c2001)

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

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