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Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜), or Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees, is a Japanese play, one of the three most popular and famous in the Kabuki repertoire.〔The other two are ''Kanadehon Chūshingura'' and ''Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami'', which were written and premiered in 1746 and 1748 respectively.〕 Originally written in 1747 for the jōruri puppet theater by Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I, it was adapted to kabuki the following year. Adapted to Kabuki, the play premiered in that mode in January 1748, in the city of Ise, in Mie Prefecture. Kataoka Nizaemon IV and Yamamoto Koheiji were two of the actors in this performance, playing Ginpei and Tadanobu/Genkurō respectively. The premiere in Edo was held at the Nakamura-za in May the same year, and in Osaka at the Naka no Shibai just a few months later in August. The play is derived from the ''sekai'' of the ''Heike Monogatari'', a classical epic which details the rise and fall of the Taira clan of samurai. The latter portions describe the eventual defeat of the Taira in the Genpei War (1180–85), at the hands of the Minamoto clan, led by Minamoto no Yoshitsune, the title character of this play. ''Yoshitsune'' takes place a few years after the end of the Genpei War. Minamoto no Yoshitsune, the famous general, is being pursued by agents of his brother, Minamoto no Yoritomo, who has recently established himself as Shogun. Yoshitsune travels with his mistress Shizuka and loyal retainer Benkei in search of three Taira generals who escaped justice at the end of the war, and who he believes may pose a threat to the shogunate. This aspect of the plot is the primary departure from both history and from the epic. In reality, the three generals Taira no Koremori, Taira no Tomomori, and Taira no Noritsune, along with the young Emperor Antoku and his nursemaid who feature in the play, all perished in the war, most of them sacrificing themselves in the battle of Dan-no-ura. ==Characters== *Yoshitsune *Benkei - Yoshitsune's loyal retainer *Shizuka - Yoshitsune's mistress *Genkurō - a ''kitsune'' disguised as Yoshitsune's retainer Satō Tadanobu *Tomomori - Taira general disguised as shopowner Tokaiya Ginpei *Koremori - Taira general disguised as Yasuke, adopted son of Yazaemon *Noritsune - Taira general disguised as a priest *Kawatsura Hōgen - a priest of Yoshino who hides Yoshitsune *Satō Tadanobu - a retainer of Yoshitsune *Shitennō (Suruga Jirō, Kamei Rokurō, Kataoka Hachirō, Ise Saburō) - four of Yoshitsune's retainers, generally considered together in drama, in literature and history. *Oryū - Ginpei's wife, actually Suke no Tsubone, Emperor Antoku's nursemaid *Oyasu - Ginpei & Oryū's daughter, actually Emperor Antoku *Wakaba no Naishi - Koremori's wife *Rokudai - son of Koremori and Naishi *Kokingo - retainer to Koremori and Naishi *Yazaemon - sushi-shop owner *O-bei - Yazaemon's wife *Gonta - Yazaemon's son *Ozato - Yazaemon's daughter, Yasuke's betrothed 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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