

A Story from Chikamatsu (Chikamatsu monogatari)
Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.















8 September 1908, Koami-cho, Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan [now Nihonbashi Koami-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo]




March 12, 1890 in Hokkaido, Japan


July 25, 1907 in Kyoto, Japan


April 26, 1891 in Niigata-ken, Tokyo, Japan




March 27, 1909 in Tokyo, Japan


November 19, 1908 in Osaka, Japan

March 1, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan

May 1, 1903 in Kobe, Japan


5 December 1931, Ibaraki, Japan



March 7, 1907 in Kanazawa, Japan


October 10, 1921 in Wakayama, Japan

July 1, 1911 in Hiroshima, Japan


March 27, 1924 in Osaka, Japan

10 November 1899, Fukuoka, Japan
