In 1603, Kokusetsu KANZE added this school to a group of waki schools which belonged to the Kanze school, and in the Kanei era, the Shindo school took over the position of the head waki-kata of the Kanze school when the Fukuo school, which had been the head waki-kata until then, became extinct.
1603年、観世黒雪によって観世座のワキに加えられ、寛永年間に同座の本ワキであった福王流が中絶とするとこれに代わった。