 Yoshikazu Hayashi dates the series to 1770 based on the tiger design on the fan, which he says suggests the year of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac—though other sources maintain a publishing date of .Before he began to produce full-colour prints, Harunobu used the same composition in a "benizuri-e" print, "Before the Tomiyoshi-ya", in which the lead figure carries a closed umbrella rather than a fan while passing before the Tomiyoshi-ya liquor store.Harunobu later reused the composition in other prints, such as "In Front of the Matsumotoya" () and "Geisha and Attendant on Riverbank" (), the latter of which also reuses the poem from the "Fūryū Zashiki Hakkei" version.

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