Examples are Isonojo TAMASHIMA in "Natsumatsuri Naniwa kagami" (The Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka), Yogoro in "Futatsu chocho kuruwa nikki" (A Diary of Two Butterflies in the Pleasure Quarters), Jihei KAMIYA in "Kawasho" (Rewritten version of "Shinju ten no amijima" [The Love Suicide at Amijima]), and Izaemon in "Kuruwa nikki" (Love Letters from the Licensed Quarter).
具体的な役としては『夏祭浪花鑑』の玉島磯之丞、『双蝶々曲輪日記』の与五郎、『河庄』の紙屋治兵衛、『廓文章』など。