The Touken Danshi decide to hold a poetry contest. At the same time, Tsurumaru Kuninaga leads a mysterious ritual throughout.
- Audience Participation: During the "Zabuton." segment, Akashi Kuniyuki encourages the audience to say "Ton Ton" whenever he says "Zabu Zabu."
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Several times throughout the performance even beyond the idol singer segments, although these are treated like bits.
- Call-Back: Nobuyasu and Sadachika return in this play and discuss their roles as the servants of spirits, which were assigned to them by Mikazuki Munechika in Kishou Hongi.
- Commonality Connection: One of the play segments features the Izuminokami, Hachisuka, and Nikkari bonding over their long hair struggles after a bath and discussing the different methods they use to care for their hair.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Matsui and Kuwana Gou play minor roles in the story, as they are summoned to Honmaru during the concert's final leg as part of a dramatic ritual performed by the Touken Danshi.
- Fantasy Sequence: The entire segment with Akashi and the plum tree turns out to have been a scenario he made up because he was bored.
- Frame-Up: Played for Laughs for a bit. Akashi accidentally broke a branch off of the Saniwa’s plum blossom tree and mended it with his towel, which he then convinces Imanotsurugi to retrieve for him so he can convince him that he’s the one who broke branch by being too rough. Imanotsurugi, with his childlike naïveté, easily falls for it and agrees with Akashi to keep it a secret to avoid upsetting the Saniwa. Then Kogitsunemaru shows up and falls for the same trick…
- From Bad to Worse: The entire segment with Akashi and the plum tree thanks to his manipulations. The tree is essentially reduced to its trunk after Imanotsurugi and Kogitsunemaru break off too many branches, and Akashi convinces them to chop it down to hide the evidence after being the one who told made them break them off in the first place. In the end, Akashi reveals that, aside from his initial breaking of the first branch, none of the scenario actually happened, as he made it up while alone and bored.
- The Ghost:
- Mikazuki Munechika is absent from this play, although he does get referenced by Nobuyasu and Sadachika.
- While he's not present in the musical due to being out on a mission, Izuminokami, Nikkari, and Hachisuka discuss Muramasa as being part of their "Long Hair Struggle" group after a bath.
- Lighter and Softer: The play is very much like Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru in tone compared to most of the other story-heavy performances in the series.
- Mythology Gag: Izuminokami, Hachisuka, and Nikkari wear their casual Yukata from the browser game as after-onsen outfits.
- Running Gag: Several of the bits in this play are running gags.
- The Touken Danshi making guesses as to what nostalgic sound the Go stones are producing, with guesses including cannon fire by Ookurikara, an Abacus by Mutsunokami, and sparklers by Yamatonokami. Ishikirimaru eventually figures out that it's the sound of treading on gravel from their past journeys.
- The other Touken Danshi being after Tonbokiri's konpeito. He even has a dream about it where everything and everyone, including himself, becomes "Konpeito." Konpeito is even used to describe different emotional states. The segment ends with him giving in and sharing his Konpeito with everyone that asked.
- In one bit, the Historical Revisionists try to change history by having Ieyasu eat poisoned sea bream. Sadachika and Nobuyasu have to stop him by employing a variety of increasingly absurd methods to retrieve the sea bream from him, all while hiding their own identities.
- The final bit in the play features multiple swords being confused over encountering Kogitsunemaru in different places, and it’s revealed that the part of himself that craves aburaage separated from him and became its own person. When the real Kogitsunemaru appears, the Kogitsunemaru about whom everyone has been talking to is revealed to have been the clone all along.
- Sequel Hook: After being unable to finish their poetry contest, the characters mention they'll have to settle the score for another time, suggesting that there will another Uta Awaase performance in the future.
- Summoning Ritual: The Touken Danshi don white Shinto priest outfits and perform a song and dance-based summoning ritual for Matsui or Kuwana Gou, with whoever ends up being summoned in the end depending on which version of the concert you're watching.
