Of the collected stories, some derived from "Mumyosho" (The Nameless Treatise) and "Ujishui Monogatari" (A Collection of Tales from Uji), and some are the same stories as the ones collected in "Zagenyokishu" (A Collection of Jokes Which Cheer You Up) and "Yesterday Is Today's Story" which were published in the same period.
収録されている話の中には、『無名抄』『宇治拾遺物語』に由来するものがあり、同時代に発行された『戯言養気集』と『昨日は今日の物語』と共通するものもある。