Question
Two characters vow to be “husband and wife stars for eternity” on their way to an unusually double-barrelled one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this sort of object, which Tokubei and Ohatsu bind themselves to at the end of a sewamono play. In a play titled for one of these objects, The courtesan Azuma is asked to drink with Hard Luck Yohei.
ANSWER: trees [accept pine tree or The Uprooted Pine or Aioi]
[10m] Tokubei and Ohatsu tie themselves to a half-palm, half-pine tree in a play titled for this two-word action. Another play by the same author is titled for this action “at Amijima.”
ANSWER: love suicides [or Shinjū]
[10e] Chikamatsu’s love suicide plays are traditionally performed in the bunraku style, meaning these humanoid handheld objects are used in place of actors.
ANSWER: puppets
<HG, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 27.50 | 75% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| Imperial B | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Bristol | LSE A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE B | Southampton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Warwick B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |