There were many nyobo who were good at waka poetry and Japanese literature, so the literary works that were created from the Heian period to the Kamakura period by the authors belonging to this class are specifically called nyobo bungaku (literature by nyobo).
和歌や和文文学に優れた人物も多く、平安期から鎌倉期にかけてのこの階層の作者の手になるものを特に女房文学と呼ぶ。