It idealized iki (the way of life, or style in fashion and art, combining material sensuality and elegant sophistication), and mainly described the stratagems between prostitutes in a pleasure quarters and their customers and had plots that made vulgar customers laughing stocks.
粋（いき）を理想とし、遊女と客の駆け引きを描写したり、野暮な客を笑いのめした内容が主であった。