Japan: The Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 - 6 January 1725). Ink drawing, 1939. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (real name Sugimori Nobumori) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, a form of puppet theatre that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The Encyclopædia Britannica writes that he is 'widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist'. His most notable plays deal with double-suicides of honour-bound lovers. Okakura Kakuzo describes him as 'Japan's Shakespeare' in his classic 'The Book of Tea'.

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