Question
Note to players: Original language term required. Plays in this style are accompanied by a combination of chanting and shamisen playing called jōruri. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this style of theater which the playwright Chikamatsu used for plays about love suicides partly set in Sonezaki and Amijima.
ANSWER: bunraku [accept Ningyō jōruri]
[10e] In the bunraku style of theater, performers use strings to control these wooden objects to act out the play.
ANSWER: puppet [or doll; or marionette; or ningyō]
[10h] The plays of Chikamatsu became popular to English readers after the 1961 publication of Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, which was by this translator.
ANSWER: Donald Keene [or Donald Lawrence Keene; or Kīn Donarudo]
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| Cornell Earth | Columbia Ly-α | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell Wind | RIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rochester A | Rochester B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Fire | Rochester C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |