Danjo was played by great actors like Danjuro ICHIKAWA (the ninth) and Danzo ICHIKAWA, the seventh in the Meiji period, Koshiro MATSUMOTO (the seventh) before the Second World War, Shoroku ONOE, the second and Kanzaburo NAKAMURA, the seventeenth after the war.
明治期の市川團十郎(9代目)、七代目市川團蔵、戦前の松本幸四郎(7代目)、戦後の二代目尾上松緑、十七代目中村勘三郎などの名優が弾正を演じた。