As shown above, in almost all fields, documents related to katatsu (transmission of wishes to subordinates), joshin (report to superior) and gotsu (communications between parties on equal level) exist as documents in 'sorobun' form.
以上のような、ほとんどあらゆる分野にわたって、下達・上申・互通の関係にある文書が、「候文」の形で存在する。