A good example is Ganjiro NAKAMURA I, who performed the same Kabuki play in a different way every day, and who scolded his son Ganjiro II (Senjaku I at that time) for performing "Kamiji" as he had learned from his father, saying, "Why you perform as you were taught? There is no ingenious thought of your own."
初代中村鴈治郎が同じ狂言を毎日違う演じ方をおこない、子息の二代目鴈治郎（当時は初代扇雀）が父の教えられたとおりに『紙治』を演じたとき「何で教わったままにするんや。お前の工夫はないやないか。」と叱った事などは、その好例である。