Sewamono (世話物) is a genre of contemporary setting plays in Japanese traditional theatre.
The genre is in contrast to "period setting plays" or jidaimono.
Though the distinction between "historical" and "contemporary" is not exact, and there are also plays that do not fit either category.
[2] In the conflicted lovers genre, such as The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, conflict between emotions (ninjo) and social pressure (giri) form the motor of the plot.
[3] The engirimono, or "knot-cutting", referring to the “drama of cutting the lovers' knot" such as Namiki Gohei's Godairiki Koi no Fujime is a subcategory of sewamono.