Concerning that renga, the Hananomoto-renga (a form of renga), which had the characteristic of quelling the soul of the dead, performed by unrelated people who entered the priesthood, was performed for about a hundred years from the mid-Kamakura period and became popular.
その連歌といえば、鎌倉時代中ごろから約百年、御霊の鎮魂の性格を持つ花の下連歌が無縁の遁世者によってひらかれ、好評を博していた。