Composed by Miyako Itchu I around 1719 - 20, lyricist unknown, it was apparently first performed in the kabuki theater. This is considered to be the single most important piece of Itchu Bushi music, containing all the important shamisen patterns and melodic ornaments and being a kind of distillation of the aesthetic of Itchu Bushi. "Tatsumi" are two zodiac signs, "dragon" and "snake", but can also be used for directions, in this case, meaning "southeast", more specifically, southeast of the imperial capital of Kyoto, which is Uji, a place right outside of Kyoto famous for the Byodoin Temple and for its green tea. The text describes the various sights of the four seasons, beginning with the mists of spring and the cherry blossoms and going to cloth being washed in the river in summer and the songs of the girls doing the work. The piece is full of variety and quotations of other styles and is a perfect example of the musical features that made Itchu Bushi distinctive when it first appeared.
	Shinju Ten no Amijima (The Love Suicides at Amijima, 1720) was the last, and perhaps the greatest of Chikamatsu Monzaemonﾕs love suicide plays. It shows the paper seller Jihei who is in love with the courtesan Koharu and wants to commit love suicide with her, but is held back by the efforts of his wife Osan, who appeals to Koharu as a fellow woman to try to save Jihei's life. It is said that at the same time that Chikamatsu wrote this play, he wrote Koharu Kamiyui no Dan for Miyako Itchu I, showing the same characters in a totally different scene. As Koharu is contemplating committing love suicide with Jihei, she is visited by a hairdresser. As the hairdresser does Koharuﾕs hair, she senses Koharuﾕs feelings and recalls her own youthful love affairs and times when she wanted to commit love suicide, but ultimately is glad that she has gone on living. Without directly lecturing Koharu, she manages to persuade her not to commit love suicide for the time being.
	Written by Eishi (the poetic name of the kabuki playwright Mimasuya Nisoji) and composed by Sugano Joyu I, it was first performed in either 1804 or 1806. The pine is a common symbol of longevity and good fortune. This celebratory piece is series of poetic images of the pine.
	Composed by Miyako Itchu I, lyricist unknown, this piece was first performed in 1715 at the Ichimura-za Theater in Edo when Miyako Itchu made his first trip to Edo and was one of his most popular pieces. The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the puppet play Gojunenki Uta Nembutsu written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in 1706 which in turn, is a dramatization of the story of Onatsu and Seijuro in Ihara Saikaku's Koshoku Gonin Onna (Five Women Who Devoted Their Lives to Love, 1686). After her lover Seijuro is falsely accused of embezzling money and executed, Onatsu, the daughter of a good family, goes mad with grief and goes singing carrying a straw hat. This piece takes the lyrics of the Chikamatsu play which was originally performed in the straightforward style of Gidayu narrative music and makes them much more elegant and musically elaborate.
	First performed in 1726 at the Ichimura-za Theater in Edo, it was composed by Miyako Itchu II and featured Ichimura Takenojo, the head of the Ichimura-za and was a great hit. ﾒKenbutsuzaemonﾓ is a name making fun of country folk overwhelmed by the sights of the city and the piece wittily describes the sights of Kyoto.
	First performed in 1735 at the Nakamura-za Theater in Edo, lyricist and composer are unknown, but probably it was composed by Miyako Itchu II. The lyrics are adapted from a play in the Edo Handayu style. It is one of many plays about the fox Kuzunoha, who becomes the wife of the court astrologer Abe no Yasunari (Yasuna in other versions) and has a child, but when her fox nature is discovered, has to return to the forest of Shinoda.
	First performed in 1855 to commemorate the name taking of Miyako Itchu VIII. This piece is based on a classical Noh drama about shojo, which are water spirits that love sake. In the first half of the Noh play (which is never performed) there is a sake seller who is very filial and takes good care of his parents. One of his constant customers never turns red, no matter how much he drinks. It turns out that this is actually the shojo in human form and to reward the sakeseller's filial spirit, tells him to go down to the sea. The shojo appears in his true form and bestows an inexhaustible tub of sake on the sake seller and the shojo drinks and dances happily.
	Manzai are performers of ceremonial dances that go from door to door at New Years. This piece shows attractive young kabuki actors performing these ceremonial dances.
	This is based on the classical Noh play that shows the stone bridge leading to the paradise of the Buddhist deity Monju. The bridge is guarded by shishi, lion-like spirits that play in the peonies and are annoyed by butterflies. The piece shows a priest who comes to the bridge and is confronted by the shishi but because he says that he comes not by his own power, but due to the protection of the Buddha, he is allowed to cross the bridge into paradise.