Date no Yosaku, like Seki no Koman (No.40), is a character from the kabuki play Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna. At the time of publication, the actor portraying Yosaku, Sawamura Sōjurō III had passed away. Yosaku was a retainer of the daimyō Yurugi clan. But when his love affair with the female servant Shigenoi is exposed by the antagonist Washizuka Kandayū, Yosaku is expelled from the Yurugi clan and becomes a umakata, a laborer in charge of leading horses carrying luggage or people. However, at the end of the play, he defeats Kandayū and is able to return as a retainer of the Yurugi clan.

Omatsu is a fictional figure with various legends passed down through stories and kabuki plays. Omatsu asks for help from her husband's friend to avenge his death, the friend instead attempts to woo her, and she instinctively stabs him with her dagger. After this incident, her personality completely changes, and she becomes a thief. The actor who plays Omatsu in this print is Bandō Shūka I. The background depicts Suzuka River along the mountain roads of the Suzuka Pass, and is referencing Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Tsuchiyama from his Tsutaya edition of the “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway” series.

Seki-no-Koman from Koi Nyōbō Somewake Tazuna (The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife) is the subject of this print. This is a posthumous portrait of the actor Iwai Hanshirō VII as Seki-no-Koman. Seki-no-Koman was a geisha from Gion in Kyōto, but she became a maidservant in Seki post station after chasing after Date-no-Yosaku (No. 48), who had been disowned and became an umakata (a transporter for hire that carried people or goods on horseback). The background references Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Seki from his Tsutaya edition of the “Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Highway” series. 　A procession moving along the Tōkaidō Highway is depicted passing beside an ichiri-zuka, a mound situated every 1-ri (3.9km) on both sides of the Tōkaidō Highway as mileposts. Typically, trees such as hackberry or pine were planted on these mounds.

No.33 and No.34 share a consecutive background depicting the snowscape of Yahagi Bridge spanning over Yahagi River. The figures in the foreground are Karaki Masaemon and his wife Otani from the kabuki play Igagoe Dochū Sugoroku (The Sugoroku Game of Crossing Iga). These prints depict the characters during the “Scene of Okazaki”, in which Otani visits Masaemon in the snow carrying a newborn. The actors assigned in these prints are Nakamura Utaemon IV as Masaemon and Onoe Baikou IV as Otani.

Sawai Matagorō (No. 31), the antagonist in the revenge story “Igagoe Dōchū Sugoroku,” and Sawai Sukehei (No.32), his retainer and courier. No. 31 is thought to depict Sukehei in a scene in which he gets upset in front of a tea shop after seeing through a spyglass that his favored courtesan is making love with another customer at the Yoshida-juku. Sawai Matagorō is not in this scene in the play, but the background of No.31 continues onto No. 32. The actor playing Sawai Matagorō is Matsumoto Kōshirō VI, and Sawai Sukehei is played by Bandō Mitsuemon I. Both were already deceased at the time of publication.

This is a depiction of characters from “Kanadehon Chūshingura” (Treasury of Loyal Retainers). The likenesses of the actors are Arashi Rikan III as Tonase (No. 29) and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Konami (No. 30). Konami is the fiance of Rikiya, the son of Ōboshi Yuranosuke, a retainer of Enya Hangan, but the engagement looks like it is about to be broken due to the dispossession of the Enya family. Konami's step mother, Tonase, and Konami head to Yamashina, Kyoto, where the Ōboshi family is located, in order to push ahead with the matchmaking process. The backgrounds of No. 29 and No. 30 are connected. The background shows the pine trees of Yoshiwara-juku at that time, along with Mt. Fuji.

This is a depiction of characters from “Kanadehon Chūshingura” (Treasury of Loyal Retainers). The likenesses of the actors are Arashi Rikan III as Tonase (No. 29) and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Konami (No. 30). Konami is the fiance of Rikiya, the son of Ōboshi Yuranosuke, a retainer of Enya Hangan, but the engagement looks like it is about to be broken due to the dispossession of the Enya family. Konami's step mother, Tonase, and Konami head to Yamashina, Kyoto, where the Ōboshi family is located, in order to push ahead with the matchmaking process. The backgrounds of No. 29 and No. 30 are connected. The background shows the pine trees of Yoshiwara-juku at that time, along with Mt. Fuji.

The background of this print is a recreation of the iconic rain scene in Utagawa Hiroshige’s Shōno from his Hoeido edition of the“Tōkaidō” series. The figure in the foreground is Bandō Takesaburō I, who plays Nakano Tōbei within the Kameyama no Adauchi genre of kabuki plays. The stories related to the Kameyama no Adauchi genre is based on true events that took place at Ise Kameyama in 1701 involving a revenge incident. The events were soon thereafter turned into a play in 1702. Nakano Tōbei first appears as a character within the Kameyama revenge lore in Dōchū Kameyama-banashi (1778). He is killed by Fujikawa Mizuemon (No. 81) when he attempts to avenge the death of his lord, Ishii Hyōei.