In a play in this language, a man asks his brother to burn twenty-nine oaths given monthly by his lover after he is caught eavesdropping. A woman wonders why her adopted son needs so many tissues in a play in this language after struggling to account for his embezzlement. A playwright who used this language to write The Courier for Hell (15[1])broke a tradition of period (15[1])plays with a “domestic tragedy” whose popularity eventually led to a ban on depictions of its title action. (*) Donald Keene, who (10[1])translated plays from this language, praised the beauty of a scene in which a couple discovers two trees growing from the same trunk and decides to stab themselves there. The Uprooted Pine is a play in this language by an author who pioneered the “love-suicide” plotline. For 10 points, name this language used in a genre of puppet theater, bunraku, by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. ■END■