Escaping from the world where money was everything,
lovers hastened to their death.

"Sonezaki Shinju", one of the famous work by Chikamatsu (the first performance was in 1703).

It was based on a real incident which took place in the forest of Sonezaki Tenjin in Osaka. The play was performed one month after the incident. Since it dealt with common people's lives for the first time in Joruri history, it became an epoch-making drama which played an important role in the establishment of the Realism in the Edo period.