Shinjū
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Shinjū is a Japanese term meaning "double suicide", used in common parlance to refer to any group suicide of two or more individuals bound by love, typically lovers, parents and children, and even who
Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kunisada depicting "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki"
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki is a jōruri play by the Japanese playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The double suicides that occurred on May 22, 1703, inspired Chikamatsu to write this play and thus The L
Shinjū
…A double suicide without consent is called muri-shinjū (無理心中) and it is considered as a sort of murder–suicide. Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kunisada depicting "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki" Lovers committing double suicide believed that they would be united again in heaven, a view supported by feudal teaching in Edo period Japan, which…
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