Chikamatsu Dramatizes the Ronin
March 1, 1703
The puppet playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon produced an early dramatization of the Forty-Seven Ronin on the Osaka stage. Forbidden to portray recent samurai events, he set it in a safer century. Audiences saw through the disguise and wept. Japanese popular theater had discovered its greatest single story, and one of its greatest playwrights.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.