[1] Yoshimoto learned waka from Ton'a and renga from Gusai and Kyūsei.
The text currently remains in a single manuscript in the Inokuma Nobuo (猪熊信男) collection.
The text begins with a kanbun preface by Priest Gen'e and concludes with an afterword by Kyūsei.
The main text consists of two major sections: general discourse on renga ranging from history to ways to learn, and rules for composing renga.
These rules, more formally known as shikimoku (式目), became the foundation for later renga poetics such as the 1372 Ōan Shinshiki (応安新式).