治兵衛は(じへえは)紙屋(かみや)を営み(いとなみ)、溺れていたのは(おぼれていたのは)遊女の(ゆうじょの)小春(こはる)

'The Love Suicides at Amijima' (Shinjū Ten no Amijima) is a masterpiece Ningyo Joruri play that Chikamatsu Monzaemon published several years after 'The Love Suicides at Sonezaki'. Although 'Jihei,' who ran a paper shop honestly in Tenma, Osaka, had a clever wife (Osan) and two cute children, he fell deeply infatuated with 'Koharu,' a courtesan at a teahouse in Sonezaki.