Sanemori
Sanemori（1925）Explanations of Nō plays: a vade mecum for spectators of Nō plays, Nōgakukai, Tokyo [EN]
- 25Izutsu, Rōtaiko, Hanagatami, Hanjo, Futarishizuka, Tomonaga, Chikubushima, Oharagōkō, Tsuchigumo, Tsunemasa, Kozō, Sanemori, Hibariyama, Motomezuka, Settai, etc.
- 20Examples of the Warrior plays are : “Tomonaga,” “Sanemori,” “Yorimasa,” “Yashima,” and “Ebira.”
- 40In ” Sanemori ” the priest says : ” Let us make special invocation of the Holy Name for his spirit ” ; and the old warrior says : “Paradise is eternal and life is endless. How joyously people should continue their prayers, for someone is born in Gokuraku at every prayer.”
- 42The villager of the first scene becomes the ghost, or, as I prefer to call it, the spirit of the departed warrior, as for example, in “Sanemori,” “Ebira,” “Atsumori,” “Tadanori,” “Tsunemasa.”
- 54Sanemori (Saitō-Bettō Sanemori, a Brave Veteran of the Heike)