In more detail he was very good at writing Shiranamimono (play featuring sympathetic or tragic rogues and thieve as protagonist), and bandits described by him are rather timid and the disadvantaged who are tossed about by ill luck.
内容的には白浪物（盗賊が主人公となる）を得意としたが、そこに登場する悪人たちは、むしろ小心で因果に翻弄される弱者である。