| In productions where the period is unspecified or set from the Meiji period onwards when common people were allowed to have surnames, the performers occasionally introduce characters whose surnames relate back to the real names of the storytellers to whom they are related, and whose family names are common. |
時代設定を特に定めない、あるいは庶民にも名字を名乗ることが許された明治以降に置いた演出では、演者にゆかりのある噺家の本名に因みかつ一般的な姓が出る場合がある。 |