YOSHITSUNE SENBON ZAKURA
(義経千本桜)

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/1900
Print Date: 04/1900?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Hara Shobo
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小團次; 市川小團次) as
Hayami no Tôta ( 早見藤太)
    
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)

Ichikawa Enshô  II (市川莚升; 市川莚舛) as
Koshimoto Yayoi (腰元弥生)
    
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
[Yoshinoyama (吉野山) dance scene]
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/28/02
Print Date: 06/28/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 
 

[Shizuka Gozen (静御前) Dancing]
 

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: 01/1904
Artist: Kobori Tomone (小堀鞆音)
Published: Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部), Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jan. 1904)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

  Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升) as
  Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
  Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
  Shizuka Gozen (I静御前)
 
  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次)
  Hangan Minamoto no Yoshitsune (判官 源義経)
 
 Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
 Performance Place: ?
 Performance Date: ?
 Print Date: 1905
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)

Note: I have not found a contemporaneous stage performance with this particular cast.
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜); Retsujo Shikinami (烈女敷浪); 
Futaribakama (二人袴); Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣); Hoken Girahi (保険ぎらひ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Print Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

[Costume Competition Sugoroku] Ishô Kei Nigao Sugoroku (衣裳競似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

       
        24. Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
        Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)
                     
        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)  
 
 

[Popular Costume Sugoroku Game] Furidashi Ishô Ninki Sugoroku (振出衣裳人気双六)

Print Date: 11/20/1912
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Image courtesy of Dr. Osamu Nagai

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

            
            26. ? as Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
            Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)
                     
            Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
            Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Tananobu (忠信)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #6
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助)
Hayami no Tôta (逸見藤太)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/20
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Sadatô Munetô (貞任宗任); Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討);
Nagasone Kotetsu (長曽禰虎徹); Michiyuki Hatsune Tabi (道行初音旅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/20
Print Date: 12/1920?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Iinuma Katsugorô
(飯沼勝五郎),  Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Fudesuke (筆助), and  Ichikawa Shôchô II
(市川松蔦) as Hatsuhana (初花) in Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討);  Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Abe Jirô Munetô (阿部次郎貞任) and  Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Abe Saburô Munetô (阿部三郎宗任) in Sadatô Munetô (貞任宗任); and Bandô Jusaburô III (阪東壽三郎;
坂東寿三郎) as Tsubata Sen'emon (津幡千右衛門) and Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Deshi Shôzaburô (弟子庄三郎) in Nagasone Kotetsu (長曽禰虎徹).
 
 
 

 
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺曳);  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ataka no Seki
(安宅關); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Tôjûrô no Koi (藤十郎の恋); Hatsune no Tabiji (初音の旅路)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺曳);  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ataka no Seki
(安宅關); Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税);  Tôjûrô no Koi (藤十郎の恋); Hatsune no Tabiji (初音の旅路)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Shuchô III (坂東秀調) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/20/26
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: No. 2 of Nihon Meibutsu
Ôsaka Bunraku-za Ningyô Gashû
(日本名物 大阪文楽座人形画集)
Images courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

   Tsuzumi Tôta (鼓藤太)逸見藤太)
'

   Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
'

   Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
'

Placement of characters on stage design
'

  Stage Design
'

Satô Shirô Tadanobu
(佐藤四郎忠信)/
   
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 09/21/27
Series: Kyōgen-Dukushi
(狂言づくし)
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: The artist is possibly
Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠).
 
 
 

               
Antique Make-up for a Fox (古代狐の隈)


Role: Tadanobu (忠信)
Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 04/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 72
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Flame of Ancient Use (Kayen-kuma)  (古代火炎隈)

Role: Tadanobu (忠信)
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 07/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 7, No. 58
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
From top left to lower right:
 
1. Tanaka Kôka (田中耕花): Motome (求女) in
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
2.  Machida Shian (町田紫庵): ? in ?
3.  Takarada Nao (宝田直): Sekibê (関兵衛) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
4.   *mi Tashushi (*見立志): Sumizome (墨染) in
Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積戀雪関扉)
5.  Kitada Haruhiko (北田晴彦): Oiwa (お岩) in
Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
6.  Inoue Matsuyoshi (井上松芳): Goemon (五右工門) in
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐)
7.  Uchikawa Eihô (内川英峰): Hanaregoma Chôkichi
(放駒長吉) in Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
8.  Tsuda Kôraku (津田行楽):  ? in ?
9.  Higuchi Soyama (樋口蘇山): Urazato Tokijirô
(浦里時次郎) in Akegarasu (明烏)
10. Shirai Kôyuki (白井皎雪): ? in ?
11. Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫): Tadanobu (忠信) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
12. Minami Kichijirô (南吉次郎): Urazato (浦里) in
Akegarasu (明烏)

Print Date: 10/1933
Personal Collection

Note: Most of these artists are known matchbook cover/
adveritsing label artists.  In light of the title cartouche, it
is possible that this is the first panel of a triptych that
cumulatively contains 36 actor portraits.  The seal on
this print is the same as one found on two woodblock
printed postcards that resemble two 1925 prints by
Miyake Hanayama, and is likely a publisher seal.
 
 
 
 

                   
Tadanobu (忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 10/1933
Artist: Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a close up of the
image from the oban sheet.

                   
Tadanobu (忠信)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: c. 1933
Artist: Mitamura Kaoru (三田村薫)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1936
Print Date: 1936?
Artist: Tachibana Sayume (橘小夢)
Title: [Peach Moon] Momotsuki (もも月)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
[Fox Makeup] Kitsune no Kuma (狐ノ隈)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kumadori Jûhachiban (隈取十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 

 

                   
Shizuka Gozen
(静御前)

Play:  Yoshinoyama
Michiyukyi
(吉野山道行), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune
Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Hana no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 花の巻)
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
 
 
 
 

                 
[Makeup for Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)]

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 11/1948
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Awase (歌舞伎隈取合)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

                   
Morita Kan’ya XIV (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)

Play:  Yoshinoyama (吉野山), Act IV, Scene 1 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 11/1949
Print Date: 02/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubiouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Kan’ya XIV's only performance as Tadanobu in
Tokyo prior to the publication date of this print was at the
Meiji-za in December 1937.  It is possible that this print
reflects that performance or some other performance
outside of Tokyo.
  
 
 
  

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, and
Shimizu Miezô.  The panels by Mori follow.
 
 
.

                   
Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene I of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜),
Panel 14 of Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Mori Shunchô (森 春鳥)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

               
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/54
Print Date: 11/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#7)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Tokizô III first played the role of Shizuka Gozen in
this play in Tokyo at the Hongô-za in January 1928. 
Although Utaemon V's last Tokyo appearance in this
role before the publication date of the print was in
April 1954, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Tokizô III's prior performances.
 
 
 

Portfolio Cover
 
Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信)
 
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: 1955
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prints of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 3
 
 

Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信)
 
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: 1955
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prints of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 3
 
 

                   
Tadanobu (忠信)

Play:   Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #12b
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi  Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

            
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Satō Shirō Tadanobu aka Genkurō Kitsune (佐藤忠信実は源九郎狐)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1979
Print Date: 09/1979
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#8/200)
 
 
 
 

                 
Inakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as
Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信)

Play: Yoshinoyama (吉野山), Act IV, Scene 1 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1982
Print Date: 10/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 10)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 10
(第三期大首絵シリーズの10)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

Note: 2 copies from the edition of 27 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 
 

Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Title: Bunraku Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (文棄義経千本桜)
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Date: 1982
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Title: Bunraku Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅)
Play: Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za
Date: 1982
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Personal Collection

                 
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/02/83
Print Date: 10/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 26)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 26
(第三期大首絵シリーズの26)
Personal Collection (#3/36)
 
 
 

                 
Bunraku-Shizuka Gozen (文楽 [静御前])

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 1985 (ed. 30)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: Intaglio print
Image courtesy of the Japanese Art Open Database
 
 

 Kabuki (scene from Yoshinogawa)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Date: 1991
Medium: Color screenprint
Image courtesy of loveourart.co.uk (ed. 100)
 
Note: This print comes from a series of 16 created by artist
members of the Chelsea Arts Club for the club’s centenary in 1991.
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Danshirô IV (市川段四郎) as
Hayami no Tôta (逸見藤太)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/98
Print Date: 08/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Full Length Portraits - Series XII (Design 4)]
Daijûni-ki Zenshin-zu Shirîzu no 4
(第十二期 全身図シリーズの4)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                 
[Satō Shirō Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)] Ge (化)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 2000
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 14)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
 
 

[Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信) and Shizuka Gozen (静御前)]
Yoshitsune-Senbon-Sakura (義経千本桜)
Ex Libris Johann-Peter Haas
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: 11/2013
Artist: Hamanishi Katsunori (浜西勝則)
Medium: Mezzotint
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play:   Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
/Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                 
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ?
/Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

       
        ? as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
        (義経千本桜)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

       
        ? as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
        (義経千本桜)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ?
Series: Kumadori Soroi
(隈取揃)
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

                           
        Shizuka Gozen (静御前) and
        Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信)

        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Date: ?
        Artist: Hiratsuka Akio (平塚昭夫)
        Medium: Ex Libris stencil print
        Courtesy of Kwansei Gakuin University
 

                 
Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
Play: Yoshinoyama (吉野山), Act IV, Scene 1 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: Ennosuke III performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in May 1963, at the Kokuritsu Kogekijô in
March 1968 and February 1970, and at the Kabuki-za in
July 1972, January 1979, July 1980, and October 1983, at
at the Meiji-za in April 1985, at the Kabuki-za in December
1985, at the Shinbashi Enbujô in May 1987, and at the
Kabuki-za in July 1988, January 1990, December 1990,
December 1992, December 1996, July 1998, and July 2002.
 

                 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Hayami no Tôta (早見藤太; 逸見藤太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#10)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.   Kan'ya XIII (erroneously denominated
Kan'ya XIV on the print) died on June 16, 1932 at age 48.
 
 
 
 

       
        Bunraku-za scene
         
        Play: Yoshinoyama (道行初音旅), Act IV, Scene 1 of
        Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Performance Place: Bunraku-za (文楽座)
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Saito Seijirô (斎藤清二郎)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Series: Bunraku-za 7 Tsuki Kōgyô Daiisshû
        (文楽座7月興行 第一集) 
        Personal Collection
        

                             
            Ichikawa Kamejirô II (市川亀治郎; 市川龜治郎) as  
            Satô Tadanobu/ Genkurô Kitsune (佐藤忠信/源九郎狐)

            Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: 2012
            Artist: Tachihara Inuki (立原位貫)
            Personal Collection (#42/100)

            Note: The precise performance depicted in this print is not known at this
            time. Kamejirô II changed his name to Ichikawa Ennosuke IV in June
            2012 and performed the "Kawatsura Hôgen Yakata" scene of
            Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura at the Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo, in
            connection with the first month of his shûmei.  However, since the
            print doesn't reflect Kamejirô II's new name, one can only assume it
            was based on earlier performance.  It is possible, however, that it was
            made with the foreknowledge of the upcoming Shinbashi Enbujô
            production, and was based on photos or video of a prior production,
            rather than one that Inuki actually saw in person.  During the time
            that Inuki was actively making his own actor prints, Kamejirô II
            performed this role at the  Meiji-za, Tokyo, in May 2011, and at the 
            Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo, in August 2010.
 
 
 

                   
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Image Courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

        Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
        Play: Yoshitsune Senbon
        Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: Kumadori (隈取)
        Personal Collection

                        
[Kumadori (隈取)]

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print shows the kumadori makeup for, inter
alia, Asahina (朝比奈の隈),  Tsuchigumo (土蜘),
 Kugeaku Tokihei (公家悪時平),  Kitsune Tadanobu
(狐忠信),  Sukeroku (助六),  Shakkyô (石橋),  Umeômaru
(梅王丸), Matsuômaru (松王丸), Sakuramaru (桜丸), and
Gedatsu (解脱).
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Print Date: ? (pre-October 1983)
Artist: Nishizawa Shizuo (西澤静男)
Medium: ?
 
Note:  In lieu of actual image of the print, I have used a lithographic
reproduction of the print included in the 1983 Nishizawa portfolio
"Bunraku: Gensō-teki jōnen no sekai (文楽: 幻想的情念の世界)."

 
 
 

       
        Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
     
        Play: Michiyuki Hatsune Tabi
        (道行初音旅) scene of Yoshitsune
        Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ? 
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection