— 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 […]
While transitioning from our previous narrative (The Incidents in the Life…
—Mazidul Ahmed While transitioning from our previous narrative (The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) to The Love Suicides at Amijima, I assumed this might be a more distinguishable read because of the disparities between the cultures. However, this play doesn’t fall too far from the themes we’ve been accustomed to from The […]
“You may not want to hear me, but the clink of my gold coins will make you listen!”
—Mazidul Ahmed While transitioning from our previous narrative (The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) to The Love Suicides at Amijima, I assumed this might be a more distinguishable read because of the disparities between the cultures. However, this play doesn’t fall too far from the themes we’ve been accustomed to from The […]
