Jiuta during the middle of the Edo period was mainly choka or hauta (short song) and especially enormous numbers of hauta were composed by kengyo FUJINAGA, koto (the title of the official ranks within the Todo-za (the traditional guild for the blind)) TSURUYAMA, kengyo MASASHIMA and so on and hauta was at its zenith.
江戸時代中期の地歌は長歌物、そして端歌物が中心で、ことに端歌は大阪の藤永検校、鶴山勾当、政島検校をはじめとする作曲家たちにより、厖大な数の曲が作られ、端歌物全盛時代であった。