 Serving as playwright as well as actor, Danjūrō produced a number of works, several of which were early forms of plays extremely popular later in the Edo period and still performed today, though they have undergone great changes over the centuries.Two of these such plays are "Narukami", written and premiered in 1684, and "Shibaraku", in 1697.The Genroku period marked the peak of Edo period extravagance and hedonism.