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As one of the shining pearl of Japanese traditional culture,the Bunraku,with the kabuki,neng,caving can be called the Japanese four traditional stage art,and shine in the Japanese literature art park.The Bunraku can be described as a master of styling and drama,have a very unique artistic characteristics in the performance of the script,stage music,production technology and character modeling and so on.Today,the Bunraku only continued the increasingly weak vitality reluctantly in the music of the performance of the theater.However,during the Edo period,especially the Yuan Lu years to the mid-eighteenth century,the Bunraku and the kabuki played the highest achievement of folk art at that time.As a masterpiece of Japanese drama,Chikamatsu Monzaemon made a great contribution to the development of the Bunraku.His opera's immortal literary value,superb artistic standards and profound aesthetic experience are not only known to the world,but also the architecture of the storyline and performance are still regarded as classic by today's literary world.His anthology,sonezaki shinjuis,is the first artifacts in the history of Japan's Bunraku,also elegant as the earliest social reality drama in Japan,having occupied a pivotal position in the time of literary and later literary history.The paper regards Sonezaki-shinju,the great Bunraku author Chikamatsu Monzaemon's opera,as the cutting point,to explore the literary factors and artistic feelings of Japanese Bunraku art world.You can understand the myriad world in the writing of this drama leading authority and experience the unique cultural charm of the Bunraku.It is hoped that this paper can provide a new perspective for the reexamination of the value and significance of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's opera in the history of the development of the Bunraku.