Content from "Wakan Roeishu" (lit. Collection of Chinese and Japanese Poems for Singing) and "Honcho Monzui" (anthology of waka poems and prose written in classical Chinese) as well as Buddhist terms are frequently used, and it contains ideological think that transcends the boundaries of other travel journals.
『和漢朗詠集』や『本朝文粋』さらには仏教語などが頻出しており、紀行文の枠を越えた思想性を含んでいる。