TOKIWA GOZEN
(常盤御前)

aka ON'AI HITOME NO SEKIMORI (恩愛睛関守)
aka FUSHIMI NO YUKI (伏見の雪)
aka YUKI NO TOKIWA (雪の常盤)

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前)
 
Play: Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前)
Performance Place: 02/04/23
Performance Date: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前)
 
Plays:  Nishiyama Monogatari (西山物語); Yuki no Tokiwa (雪常磐); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Echigo no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Ryôkan to Komori (良寛と子守)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/29
Print Date: 06/1929?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Yoriki Ishiko Bansaku (與力石子伴作) in Echigo
no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ryôkan (良寛) in Ryôkan to Komori
(良寛と子守); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and  Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門).
 
 
 

Play: On'ai Hitome no Sekimori (恩愛睛関守)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Tokiwazu Bushi (常磐津節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

c. 1938-1940

                 
[Lady Tokiwa] Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前)

Play: Fushimi no Yuki (伏見の雪)
Date: c. 1938-1940
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Image courtesy of Robyn Buntin of Honolulu