谷崎潤一郎
In the preface he wrote for Donald Keene's book "Bunraku", the writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki complained about the too-long endings of all the double suicide plays, since it is a known denouement. In his novel "Some Prefer Nettles", he parodies the notion of "shinjū" and gives it a social and sensual double suicide with no clear ending.