However, while "Basket bucket" is popular even today because it's performed by excellent actors, "Chizimiya Shinsuke" effectively remains a 'buried masterpiece' because it's not been performed by any outstandingt actors other than Kichiemon NAKAMURA (the first) and Hakuo MATSUMOTO the first).
ところが役者に恵まれた『籠釣瓶』が今日でも人気の演目なのに対し、中村吉右衛門(初代)や松本白鸚(初代)の他にこれといった役者に恵まれなかった『縮屋新助』の方は今日では事実上「埋もれた名作」と化している。