In this hataraki-goto, the shite who plays a spirit of busho (Japanese military commander) or a monogurui (mad people) moves round wildly in a state of high emotion and expresses the suffering of Shurado (World of Fighting and Slaughter) ("Yashima" or "Sakuragawa" [Sakura river] in which a heroine wonders about in a frenzy of grief).
武将の霊や物狂いなどのシテが精神の昂揚によってはげしく動きまわるもので、修羅道の苦患様子をうつしている（『屋島』や、狂乱のあまりにさすらい歩く『桜川』）。