Modeled after the singing competitions with entrants lined up on the right and left sides, the book profiles 20 different occupations in 10 pairs of pictures of townspeople including a yam peddler, eggplant peddler, fishmonger, and tofu peddler. The artist is thought to be Narushima Motonao (1778 - 1862), a Confucian scholar who served as a tutor to the shogun house and edited Tokugawajikki, the official records of the Tokugawa shogunate.