— Anonymous Part 1 The play “Love Suicide at Amijima” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is a tragic love story of a young prostitute(Koharu) and a business, family man (Jihei). They both fall in love with each other but that is impossible to be together. Because the first reason is that jihei was a married person and […]
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A tremendous metaphorical expression
— Anonymous First of all, the word, that come to my mind by looking at the title of the play “The Love Suicides at Amijima” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is “tragedy,” (events fill with great sufferings and destructions). As I started reading, I came to notice a tremendous metaphorical expression where the author is depicting the […]
Caught me on the side of feelings and it didn’t let me go until the end
— Ginna Lopez In the previous assignment [my professor] posted three videos which I watched and enjoyed. Thanks for those videos I did not see the reading so difficult to understand. For instance, the magic of the puppets was inexplicable. It was not just a fantasy and adventure. The puppet play, “The Love Suicides at […]
It seems that there is no way out
— Onima Shah When I first read Act I, it was extremely confusing for me to read. I had a difficult time comprehending what I was reading. However, after reading it again for the second time, I think it started to become more clear to me. I thought it was interesting when someone in their […]
You can read the text in many different ways
— Anonymous Our first reading this semester was “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger”. It is very easy to read the text. At the beginning there is a short historical introduction which explains what was going on at that time of period which I find a very interesting way to start the text. […]
