Their first examples were "Kutsunaoshi Waranbe no Oshie" (literally, "Teachings by a Child Repairing Shoes") and "Sonoirodori Toki no Koeki" (literally, "The Color and the Trade of Earthenware") presented in Kyoto in 1872, and their original was "Saigoku Risshihen" (a translation from Self-Help written by Samuel Smiles) by Masanao NAKAMURA.
最初の例は1872年（明治5年）京都で上演されたサミュエル・スマイルズ作中村正直訳の『西国立志編』が原作の『鞋補童教学』『其粉色陶器交易』であった。