The main purpose of this work was to describe the customs, manners and temperaments of student society in 1868, and there are those scenes depicting the daily lives at their board and lodgings, or students at play in those popular places such as beef specialty restaurants or yokyu (a small-sized bow originally made from willow) parlors.
明治初年の書生社会の風俗と気質をうつすことを主眼として、下宿生活、牛肉屋、楊弓店などで書生らが遊ぶ様子も描く。