The diary was written in a variant of Chinese language, in which Japanese were transformed into a kind of Chinese and the writing was done all in Chinese characters (Most of the diaries in those days were written in this style).
本文は変体漢文、すなわち日本語を漢文調にして記述した文章で書かれており、ほぼすべての文章が漢字のみとなっている（当時の日記の多くはこの形態であった）。