WRITER

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

1653 - 1725

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Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門, real name Sugimori Nobumori, 杉森 信盛, 1653 – 6 January 1725) 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 Japanese dramatist". His most famous plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chikamatsu Monzaemon has received more than 220,084 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Chikamatsu Monzaemon is the 1,603rd most popular writer (up from 1,610th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Japan (down from 441st in 2019) and the 34th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 1,603 out of 7,302. Before him are Rafael Sabatini, Robert Faurisson, Jan Guillou, David Albahari, Charles Paul de Kock, and Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti. After him are Robert Desnos, Dick Bruna, Philip José Farmer, Petar Kočić, Eileen Chang, and Peter Altenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1653, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 9. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland, Prince George of Denmark, André-Hercule de Fleury, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, and Georg Muffat. After him are Maria Amalia of Courland, Carlo Ruzzini, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Caspar van Wittel, Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg, and Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg. Among people deceased in 1725, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 3. Before him are Peter the Great, and Alessandro Scarlatti. After him are Mahmud Hotak, Arai Hakuseki, René de Froulay de Tessé, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, José Benito de Churriguera, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, and Jonathan Wild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 459 out of 6,245. Before him are Rei Kawakubo (1942), Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1435), Emperor Takakura (1161), Tokugawa Ieyoshi (1793), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), and Hideyo Noguchi (1876). After him are Nobutake Kondō (1886), Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 34. Before him are Chūya Nakahara (1907), Ryū Murakami (1952), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ono no Komachi (825), Junji Ito (1963), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930). After him are Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), and Atsushi Nakajima (1909).

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