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As many countries in the word , double suicide keeps being described and praised during 2000 years of Japan history. Especially , in the Genroku age , it was spread out as contagion , and to be used as a topic of “kawaraban” which is similarly like the newspaper, “ukiyo zoushi” and drama. Today , the well know script “Sonezaki Shinju” and “Shinju ten no Amijima “ of Chikamatsu Monzaemon is the inheritance in this age. According to these two scripts which is adopted the double suicide, I find there is a big change about double suicide’s description of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Therefore , this essay is reseached by the articles of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. , which was according to the double suicide of crzizen. The reference book is “sinnpenn nihonn kotenbunngaku zennsyu Chikamatsu Monzaemon2” which published by Shogakukan. There are two purposes of this essay’s research , focus on the double suicide`s scripts which written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon。1. How did the writer describe the topic of double suicide`s scripts? 2. This article exhibt Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s view and how he gaze at the death. There are five chapters in this whole essay, besides intro and conclusion, about two , three ,and four are the main parts of this essay. In chapter two , it describes the background of double suicide`s scripts in Chikamatsu Monzaemon ‘s article in the age, and also analyzes how the other ‘s articles describe double suicide in the same age. Chapter three , by comparing the two articles “Sonezaki no Akebono” of ukiyo zoushi’s “Shinju Daikan” and“keiseihuryusugihai”, to clarify the presentability of “Sonezaki Shinju”. And I regard the presentability of initial writing in “Sonezaki Shinju”, in chapter three , as the standard in chapter four . About the other ten writings are categorized into three periods , first , second and third period , there is more discussing of different double suicide characterization of these three periods. Finally in the conclusion, there are four characteristics induced about the double suicide`s scripts which written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon。Each of them is : 1. female image 2. negative money value 3. family ethics 4. gazing at death.
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