Rakugo "Shichidanme" is a shibai-banashi (rakugo story based on kabuki) in which a servant boy and his young master, who likes kabuki, play the roles of Okaru and Heiemon respectively, in a room on the second floor, then the servant boy falls down the stairs, the young master says, 'Are you all right?' and the servant boy replies, 'I am all right, I only fell down from shichidanme' (seventh step on the stairs).
落語の「七段目」は、芝居好きの若旦那が丁稚と二階の部屋で平右衛門とおかるの件を演じ、丁稚が階段から落ちて「怪我はないか」「なあに、七段目」と下げる芝居噺。