The Osaka Kannon Pilgrimage and Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Sonezaki: Text, Context, and Performance

The Osaka Kannon Pilgrimage and Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Sonezaki: Text, Context, and Performance

Michael Brownstein - Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame

Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

The opening passage of The Love suicides at Sonezaki (1703), Chikamatsu first “contemporary-life play” for the puppet theater, describes the heroine, Ohatsu, making a pilgrimage to 33 temples of Kannon in Osaka. In this lecture, Prof. Brownstein discusses the pilgrimage itself, how the passage from the play was originally performed, and its importance for understanding the play as a whole.

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