Additionally, Noinbon was used as a master copy in making the old plate of type in the early Edo period; therefore, it remained a dominant manuscript along with "The Pillow Book Bochu (marginal notes)" and "Shunsho-sho Commentary of The Pillow Book" (annotated by Kigin KITAMURA) until modern times.
また、能因本は江戸時代初期（寛永年間）の古活字版に底本として利用されたため、『枕草子傍注』や『枕草子春曙抄』（北村季吟註）といった注釈書とセットになって近代まで伝本の主流を占めた。