In a work in this literary genre, a couple use a dagger to chop off their hair and become “nun and priest” shortly before their deaths. A wife in this genre is dragged home by her parents, who discover she intends to pawn her clothes to buy another woman’s freedom. In a work in this genre, a man is stomped on by his rival, who was bound to a window for stabbing through a lattice. An (*) oil merchant uses a promissory note to frame his rival for extortion in a work in this genre. A conjoined palm and pine tree is the place where the title action of a work in this genre occurs. Tokubei and the courtesan Ohatsu decide to die together in that work in this genre. For 10 points, the titles of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (“chi-ka-MAH-su mon-ZA-eh-mon”) works in what genre end in “Amijima” and “Sonezaki?” ■END■
ANSWER: love suicide plays [or shinjūmono; accept The Love Suicides at Amijima or Shinjūten no Amijima; accept The Love Suicides at Sonezaki or Sonezaki Shinjū; prompt on bunraku or puppet plays or sewamono by asking “what genre is in the title of that play?”; prompt on plays or drama or theater]
<Albert Nyang, World Literature>
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