Rakugo features: townspeople/common people, women, stories on poor people, true feelings, a sense of unity between performers and audience, standpoints from underneath, affirmation of inconsistency in the world, affirmation of antisocial nature, descriptions of sentiment, development by conversation, and required pacing of narrative.
落語-町人庶民、女性、ダメな人の物語、ホンネ、演者と客との一体感、下からの目線、世の矛盾を肯定、反社会性の肯定、心情描写、会話により展開される、しゃべりに緩急が必要