The main character of this bogen is the canny, rather bawdy young apprentice of days-gone-by.
In the first half of the play, the apprentice is threshing rice with his master's young and attractive
wife; time and again he makes her laugh with his silly antics. Finishing their works -the apprentice
covers his mistress in the chaff, only to be caught red-handed in this foolery by his master, who is
just returning home. After getting a beating from his master, the young apprentice, pretending to
cry, goes to the wife. She gives him the job of washing, ''mountain potatoes'' (taro root) and
mashing them for soup, whilst she takes care of her husband's sake. The apprentice can't stop
fooling around, and is constantly getting scolded. Soon the master's sake runs out, and the boy is
sent off to buy more, during which time the master and his wife lay down to sleep, a thief enters
stealthily and begins to steal their clothes, only to be caught at it by the apprentice, as he returns
from the wine shop.
Making use of the darkness, the apprentice takes the clothes the thief has stolen and hides them
from him, and as he goes to attack the intruder, the intruder notices him, and comes at him with
his sword drawn. The apprentice fights back with a wooden pestle and then throws the whole pot
of sticky potato soup all over the thief.
The play ends with the thief making good his escape, slipping and sliding through the mess of
potato soup.