Upper left: a good-hearted courtesan (here, Koharu in Love Suicides at Amijima). Upper right: a good-looking, but weak-willed young man, the kind who gets involved in love-suicides (here, Jihei in Love Suicides at Amijima). Compare the Kabuki versions of Jihei and Koharu below.

Lower left: A highborn young woman (here Shizuka Gozen in Yoshitsune Senbon-Zakura). Lower Right: A fierce samurai who has a hidden grief (here, Matsuomaro from Sugawara's Secrets of Calligraphy).