Keikai included his autobiography in Chapter 38 of Volume 3 in which he wrote that he lived with his wife and children in the secular society, and, having been a shidoso (lay Buddhist monk) himself in his youth albeit became an official monk of Yakushi-ji Temple later on, was sympathetic with lay Buddhist monks who were not recognized as legitimate Buddhist monks by the state.
景戒は、下の巻三十八に自叙伝を置いて妻子とともに俗世で暮らしていたと記しており、国家の許しを得ない私度僧に好意的で、自身も若い頃は私度僧であったが後に薬師寺の官僧になったという。