Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1653)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Japanese playwright (1653–1725)

Chikamatsu Monzaemon , real name Sugimori Nobumori , was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The Encyclopædia Britannica has written that he is "widely regarded as the greatest…