
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.














March 27, 1924 in Osaka, Japan

July 1, 1911 in Hiroshima, Japan



5 December 1931, Ibaraki, Japan


March 25, 1912 in Kyoto, Japan

March 7, 1907 in Kanazawa, Japan





November 19, 1908 in Osaka, Japan


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





February 27, 1908 in Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan

10 November 1899, Fukuoka, Japan

July 25, 1907 in Kyoto, Japan


May 1, 1903 in Kobe, Japan



March 12, 1890 in Hokkaido, Japan

March 1, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan


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