YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA
(義経千本桜)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)  as
Taira Tomomori (平知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 09/1915
Arist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

                 
Tokaiya Ginpei (渡海屋銀平), in reality
Zen-Chunagon Tomomori (前中納言知盛)
Senbon Zakura Daimotsu no Ura (千本桜大物浦)

Play: Act II, Scene 4 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Date: 1939
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Sagami Gorō (相模五郎)?
 
Onoe Shôroku II (市川松緑) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Tôkyō Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1948
Print Date: 02/1948?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Tô Kyôgen Kabuki Nishikie (当狂言歌舞伎錦絵)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector

                   
Sawamura Tanosuke V (澤村田之助) as Yoshitsune (義經)
 
Ichikawa Somegorô V (市川染五郎) as Tomomori (知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Tôkyō Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1948
Print Date: 02/1948?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Tô Kyôgen Kabuki Nishikie (当狂言歌舞伎錦絵)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector
 

                 
Tomomori (知盛)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 1994
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 9)
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown Collection
 
 

               
Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as
Oryû/Suke-no-Tsubone (お柳/典侍の局)

Play: Tokaiya (渡海屋), Act II, Scene 2 of '
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/95
Print Date: 08/1995
Series: [Bust Portraits X (Design 7)]
Daijû-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 7
(第十期大首絵シリーズの7)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Taira Tomomori (平知盛)
 
Title: Kusanagi (草薙)
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 2020
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
  
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Tomomori (知盛)

Play: Daimotsu no Ura (大物浦), Act II, Scene 4 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection

Note: Danjûrô XII portrayed the role in Tokyo at the Kokuritsu
Gekijô in November 1991 and November 2001, and at the
Kabuki-za in May 1995.

                 
Ikari [Tomomori] (碇[知盛])

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of Galerie Shinkura

                 
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Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kisan (璣山)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print appears to be from a second series of prints.  It is
possible that it represents Tomomori (知盛) in Daimotsu no Ura
(大物浦), Act II, Scene 4 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜).