Here we see the actors Wakabayashi Shirōgorō (as Hōjō Tokiyori), Ichimura Tamagashiwa (as Masaki no Mae), and Ichimura Takenojō (as Hōjō Yasutoki) from the kabuki play Banzei Onna Hachinoki (万歳女鉢木) held at the Ichimura theatre in 1715. They are partaking in a traditional Japanese ritual for the New Year season - pounding rice in a barrel into mochi (noted in "Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print" by Frederick Harris). Banzei Onna Hachinoki was a kaomise, a play that was used to "introduce" a new season's actors to the audience, and it seems possible that Kiyomasu created this print as a New Year's print celebrating the kaomise of the actors in the new theatre season.

This reproduction is a sumizuri-e (ukiyoe printed with black pigment alone) with fudezaishiki (hand colouring by brush).