Actors Ichikawa Danjūrō II, Fujimura Handayū II, Katsuyama Matagorō, and Sanogawa Mangiku, 1719, Torii Kiyonobu; Publisher: Sagamiya Yohei, Japanese, 1664 - 1729, 8 1/4 × 11 7/16 in. (21 × cm) (image, sheet, horizontal chūban), Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color, nikawa, and metalic flakes, Japan, 18th century, Capitalizing on the public's fascination with a sensational double suicide by a pair of star-crossed lovers in Osaka in 1703, Chikamatsu Monzaemon wrote Sonzaki shinjū (Double Suicide at Sonezaki) and managed to have it performed at the Takemoto

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