Chikamatsu

[ chee-kah-mah-tsoo ]

noun

1. Mon·za·e·mon [mawn, -zah-e-, mawn], 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.

Example Sentences

FilmStruck offers a generous helping of Mizoguchi’s films, and is the only place to stream one of his last, and best, films, “A Story from Chikamatsu,” from 1954, an intensely romantic and bitter historical drama, based on an eighteenth-century play, that’s centered on the filmmaker’s lifelong theme—the oppression of women in Japanese culture and the central part that this oppression plays in a widespread, traditional system of injustice and misrule.

From The New Yorker

“A Story from Chikamatsu” is streaming on FilmStruck.

From The New Yorker

It was here that Monzayemon Chikamatsu, the first and the greatest dramatist Japan has ever produced, demonstrated his peerless talent at the end of the seventeenth century, and here was also one of the cradles of the modern Japanese theatre.

From Project Gutenberg

In college I took a course in Japanese literature that included study of the 18th-century love-suicide plays of Chikamatsu.

From New York Times

Thus, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, of Osaka, the greatest dramatist that his country ever possessed, composed plays which have earned for him the title of the "Shakespeare of Japan;" and as for the light literature of the era, though it was disfigured by erotic features, it faithfully reflected in other respects the social conditions and sentiments of the time.

From Project Gutenberg