In the Imperial Court, dai-keicho (the grand yearly tax registers), shozeicho (balance sheets of tax rice), chocho (list of choyo [tribute and labor]) and choshucho (report of affairs of state) submitted by Kokushi (provincial governors) in various places at fixed times of the year were particularly called shidonokumon.
朝廷においては、特に毎年一定の時期に各地の国司から提出される大計帳・正税帳・調帳・朝集帳を四度公文（しどのくもん/よどのくもん）と呼んだ。