They are, in a sense, arts handed down from father to son of Kabuki, but in many cases they are not clearly recognized as arts of the Ichimura family, because the family line substantially failed after the death of Uzaemon ICHIMURA the fifteenth due to a lack of appropriate successors.
いわゆる歌舞伎の家の芸であるが、十五代目市村羽左衛門没後思わしい後継者に恵まれず、家系は実質上絶えてしまったこともあって、市村家の芸であることが強く意識されることはあまりない。