Plays by/attributed to Zeami
These are plays that Zeami has acknowledged having written in one or more of his subsequent treatises. Attributions taken from Thomas Hare’s Zeami’s Style (Stanford U.P., 1986). *Authorship attributions are constantly changing as new evidence is found. Scholars often disagree, hence different attributions can be found in play analyses.
Mentioned in the Ongyoku Kuden 音曲口伝
- Tōru 融
- Sekidera komachi 関寺小町
Mentioned in the Sandō 三道
- Oimatsu 老松
- Atsumori 敦盛
- Ausaka Monogurui 逢坂物狂
- Higaki 檜垣
- Kiyotsune 清経
- Tadanori 忠度
- Taisanpukun 泰山府君
- Yōrō 養老
- Sanemori 実盛
- Takasago 高砂
- Yumi Yawata 弓八幡
- Aridōshi 蟻通
- Unoha 鵜羽
- Sotoba Komachi 卒都婆小町
- Yorimasa 頼政
Mentioned in the Go-on 五音
- Nomori 野守
- Nue 鵺
- Senju 千手
- Taema 当麻
Mentioned in the Sarugaku dangi 申楽談儀
- Koi no omoni 恋重荷
- Fujisan 富士山
- Fushimi 伏見
- Ukon 右近
- Semimaru 蝉丸 ?
- Hanagatami 花筐
- Hanjo 班女
- Sakuragawa 桜川
- Izutsu 井筒
- Kinuta 砧
- Saigyō zakura 西行桜
- Nishikigi 錦木
- Yashima 屋島（八島）
- Hōjōgawa 放生川
- Tsuchiguruma 土車
- Kōya monogurui 高野物狂
Plays revised by Zeami 世阿弥改作の曲
These are plays originally written by others that Zeami claims to have revised, reworked, and possibly renamed.
Mentioned in the Sandō 三道
- Funabashi 船橋
- Kayoi Komachi 通小町
- Matsukaze 松風
Part by Kan’ami
- Michimori 通盛
- Tango monogurui 丹後物狂
- Ukifune 浮舟
Mentioned in the Go-on 五音
- Ashikari 芦刈
- Shun’ei 春栄
Mentioned in the Sarugaku dangi 申楽談儀
- Kashiwazaki 柏崎
- Ukai 鵜飼
Plays in Zeami’s hand signed by Zeami 世阿弥自筆の曲
- Morihisa 盛久 (Dated 1423, in repertory)
- Tadatsu no Saemon 多度津左衛門 (Dated 1424, bangai)
- Eguchi 江口 (Dated 1424, in repertory)
- Unrin’in 雲林院 (Dated 1426, in repertory, altered)
- Kashiwazaki 柏崎 (Undated, in repertory)
In the Kanze bunko archive 観世文庫蔵
- Naniwa no Ume 難波の梅 (Dated 1413/1414, similar to Naniwa)
- Matsura 松浦 (Dated 1427, bangai)
- Akoya no Matsu 阿古屋松 (Dated 1427, bangai)
- Furu 布留 (Dated 1428, bangai)
The list of pieces in Zeami’s hand is taken from Royall Tyler, Zeami: Six Revived Bangai Plays (The Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute of Hosei University, 2014) and Omote Akira, Zeami jihitsubon shū (1997).
Plays extant during Zeami’s time 世阿弥の時代で上演された曲
These plays were being performed around the time Zeami was creating his own works.
- Motomezuka 求塚 (Zeami Performance Notes by Tom Hare, p. 290)
Plays formerly attributed to Zeami 世阿弥作と思われた曲
These plays were formerly thought to have been written by Zeami, but it has since been shown that they were probably written by other authors. In the past, over half the noh canon was attributed to Zeami. Now scholars verify the attributions, first by whether he mentions the pieces as his in his own notes, and then by characteristic stylistics.
- Aoinoue 葵上
- Kagetsu 花月
- Kasa sotoba 笠卒塔婆
- Koremori 維盛
- Yūgao 夕顔
- Yamanba 山姥
- Matsuō 松尾
- Matsura no kagami 松浦鏡
- Mimosuso 御裳裾
- Murogimi 室君
- Obasute 姨捨
- Sanekata 実方
- Tomonaga 朝長
- Tomoakira 知章
- Tokusa 木賊
- Tōgan koji 東岸居士
- Tamura 田村
Contributor: Thomas Hare, Yamanaka Reiko (edited by Kevin Woolsey)