But detailed information on this Sukeroku has not been handed down, therefore, there are a lot of different views including that Sukeroku was not a street knight but a young master of a large merchant house Yorozuya in Osaka; that Agemaki was a prostitute in the licensed quarters of Shinmachi in Osaka; and that their death was not a double suicide but Sukeroku was killed in a fight and Agemaki was brave enough to take revenge on Sukeroku.
ただし詳細は伝わらず、したがって異説も多く、助六は侠客ではなく大坂の大店・萬屋（よろずや）の若旦那だったとする説、総角は大坂・新町遊廓の遊女だったとする説、そして事件も心中などではなく喧嘩で殺された助六の仇を気丈な総角が討ったものだとする説など、さまざまである。