other than that, in kyōhō 5 (1720), in a performance of the love suicides at amijima, there was the expression, "of one possessed by a god of death". since the character was seller of paper, the character who confronted death wrote "paper" (紙, kami) as "god" (神, kami), but there are also interpretations that chikamatsu himself didn't think about the existence of a shinigami.