Tadaichi KONGO was a great performer of the school who had been active from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period, and he was well known for his special device of spider threads made of Japanese paper for the play "Tsuchigumo" (The Ground Spider).
また幕末から明治にかけて活躍した金剛唯一は『土蜘蛛』の千筋の糸を考案したことで知られる。