While Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA, who was exiled from the capital, Kyoto, stayed in the Shirohata-jo Castle of the Akamatsu clan in Harima Province, traditional performing arts were performed to comfort Yoshimitsu; after he went to Kyoto, the Akamatsu family began the custom of presenting traditional performing arts on January 13; which is described in "Mansai Nikki" (diary of Mansai, the priest).
足利義満が都落ちして播磨国の赤松氏の白旗城に居していた折に義満を慰めるため披露した芸事を、義満が上洛してのちに1月13日に赤松家によっておこなうのを習慣とした旨の記述が『満済日記』にある。