Takemoto (the famous chanter who established Gidayu-bushi) intended to retire after "Sonezaki Shinju" (The Love Suicides at Sonezaki), a masterpiece of Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU, became popular and well known, but Izumo TAKEDA persuaded him not to, and wrote a script for this play in 1705; this is how the play was produced.
竹本は、近松門左衛門の代表作として有名な『曽根崎心中』が、世間に広く知れ渡るようになり、それを機に竹本が引退するのを竹田出雲が留まらせ、宝永2年（1705年）にこの脚本を担当したのが作品の始まりである。