Zeami wrote down his father's teachings and his own acquired views on the performing arts in order to approach his art as a michi - as a way of life, and as an ie - as a family heritage ("Fushikaden").
世阿弥は父の遺訓、また自ら会得した芸術論を、「道のため、家のため」（『風姿花伝』）多数書き遺した。