Chikamatsu Monzaemon (real name Sugimori Nobumori, 1653 – 6 January 1725) is a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later comes to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki.

Encyclopædia Britannica writes that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist."

His most notable plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers.