YOSHITSUNE KOSHIGOEJÔ
(義経腰越状)

aka FÛKIGUSA AIOI GENJI (富貴草相生源氏)
aka NANBANTETSU GOTÔ NO MENUKI (南蛮後藤目貫)
aka GOTÔ NO MENUKI (五斗目貫; 後藤目貫)
aka GOTÔ SANBA (五斗三番)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Gotobê (五斗兵衛)

Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô (義経腰越状)
Performance Place:  Saruwakaa-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/13/1880
Print Date: 10/1903
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This print was issued posthumously.  Danjûrô IX also
performed this role in this play at the Kabuki-za in
November 1891, September 1896, and May 26, 1899.
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Sai'nyû I (市川齊入) as Gotobê (五斗兵衛)
 
Plays: Nobi (野火);  Yoshitsune Koshigoejô (義経腰越状); Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信); 
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/11
Print Date: 11/01/1911
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts in Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Satô Shirobyôe Tadanobu
(佐藤四郎兵衛忠信) in Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信);  Ichikawa Udanji II (市川右団次; 市川右團次)
as Miurasuke Yoshizumi (三浦介義澄) and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Tamamo no Mae
(玉藻の前) in Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐);  and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Koharu (小春) and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛) in
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島).
 
   

Ichikawa Danshirô II
(市川段四郎) as
Gotobê (五斗兵衛)
 
Play: Gotô no Menuki (五斗目貫)
Performance Place: Shintomi-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/17
Print Date: 10/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                                 
                Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as ?
 
                Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as ?
 
                Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as ?
 
                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Gotobê (五斗兵衛)
 
                Onôe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as ?
 
                Plays: Ichiharano (市原野); Matsudaira Fumaikô (松平不昧公); Yoshitsune Koshigoejô (義經腰越状);
                Keisei Onigajô (傾城鬼ヶ城)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 10/01/17
                Print Date: 10/1917?
                Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Izumi no Saburò (泉の三朗)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
(義経腰越状)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/19
Print Date: 07/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II also played this role in a
version of the play produced under the title
Goto Menuki (五斗目貫) at the Shintomi-
za in October 1917.  It is possible that this
print depicts that performance instead.
 
 
 
 

            
            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
            Gotobê (五斗兵衛)
           
            Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
            (義経腰越状)
            Performance Place:07/03/19
            Print Date: 07/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Gotôbê (五斗兵衛)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
(義経腰越状)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/20
Print Date: 1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection