Shinden-zukuri were typically depicted in picture scrolls of annual events and 'the Picture Scroll of the Tale of Genji,' and they characterized the graceful lives of aristocrats.
年中行事絵巻や「源氏物語絵巻」などに描かれるものが典型的な形で、貴族の優美な生活にふさわしいものとなっていった。