Those books were forbidden to be shown to others, and except for books on astronomy, Ekigaku ('yi', Chinese scholarship of fortune telling) and Esoteric Buddhism, those books were mostly about Taoism and Gengaku including "Senkyo Ibun Saisei Kibun" (Another Story of Unworldly Men's World and Resuscitation Stories).
この他見厳禁の書籍類は、天文や易学・密教などを除くと大半が道家玄学の書であり、仙境異聞附再生記聞なども含まれていた。