Taka-gari by court noble and its attendants had been also performed until it was forbidden by Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, and Jimyoin family and Saionji family of noble and Shimotsuke family of Jige (officer not allowed to enter the Imperial palace) had made Taka-gari their family business and wrote a technique book ('book of falconry') on Waka style or prose style.
公家及び公家随身による鷹狩も徳川家康による禁止まで引き続き行われ、公卿の持明院家、西園寺家、地下の下毛野家などが鷹狩を家業とし、和歌あるいは散文形式の技術書（「鷹書」）が著されている。