The Tomimoto-based dance-drama "Meotozake Kawaranu Nakanaka" was premiered in the 11th lunar month of 1777 at the Ichimuraza as a kaomise buyô for the kaomise drama "Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune" [casting]. It was revived as a Kiyomoto-based dance-drama in the 11th lunar month of 1836 at the Moritaza. It was entitled "Kurama Jishi Oshie no Hinagata" and it was staged within in the kaomise drama "Kioi Genji Mitsugi no Tamamono" [more details]. It went into oblivion but was revived in 1912. It is now commonly called "Kurama Jishi" and is staged with a Kiyomoto musical ensemble.

It became an important dance-drama for the Shigayama School of Buyô.

Hearing of the death of her husband Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Kyô-no-Kimi has gone out of her mind from grief. She is desperately roving the countryside, weeping and seeking her lost husband. She carries with her a naginata, which had belonged to her father Kawagoe Tarô Shigeyori. As she wanders near Mimosuso River at Ise, a performer of the Daikagura dance happens to pass by. He is in reality Yoshioka no Kisanta, a former retainer (kerai) of Yoshitsune, in disguise. The dance skillfully contrasts the beauty of a lovely mad lady and the humorous nature of the Kagura dancer. The lady's major dances are the one on the hanamichi in which she is seen seeking her lost husband (kudoki), and the mad dance in which she gives voice to her love lament, imagining a meeting with Yoshitsune. Kisanta's major dances are the Kagura dance describing the legend of the Ise Shrine, followed by the shishimai dance using the traditional hand-held shishi head. During the dance Kyô-no-Kimi snatches from him his prayer bell. She uses it frantically, hoping to attract Yoshitsune's attention. When Kisanta tries to get it back, he is threatened by Kyô-no-Kimi and her naginata. Kisanta continues his dance, frightened by the mad and wild looks of Kyô-no-Kimi. Then, he tries to escape but he is followed by Kyô-no-Kimi, who has dropped her naginata behing her. He tells her to go to pick it up and, while she's doing it, he suddenly disappears. Kyô-no-Kimi has already forgotten everything and, with her naginata, she pursues her aimless wandering in the countryside.

The original dance was about Shizuka Gozen, the mistress of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. The main female role later switched to Yoshitsune's seishitsu Kyô-no-Kimi.

The dance is not set on Mount Kurama or in the village of Kurama but there is several allusion to Kurama during Kyô-no-Kimi's dance.

Sawamura Sônosuke I playing the role of Kyô-no-Kimi in the dance-drama "Kurama Jishi", which was staged in September 1922 at the Ichimuraza

Bandô Mitsugorô VII playing the role of Yoshioka no Kisanta in the dance-drama "Kurama Jishi", which was staged in November 1929 at the Meijiza