The confrontation between Danjuro, who thought about creating a new stage after the Meiji Restoration, and Jusuke, who inherited the tradition even though he had cooperated with Danjuro, made a fateful distance between them.
維新後の全く新たな舞台を作ろうと考えた團十郎と、それに協力してきたとは言えこれまでの伝統を受け継いできた壽輔の対立は、いつしか両者の間に決定的な溝を生み出すことになった。