The play, which depicts the sadness of a wife left at home during her husband's absence and uses the theme of late fall, verse and fushizuke (melody) to express melancholy, has been popular since early times.
夫の留守宅を守る妻の悲しみが描かれており、詞章、節づけともに晩秋のものがなしさを表現して、古来人々に好まれてきた能である。