For the Kamakura bakufu, there is the official history text known as "Azuma Kagami" (a chronicle of the history of the Kamakura bakufu) and there was a similar text entitled "Tokugawa Jikki" for the Edo bakufu, the long period of continued political instability meant that there was no opportunity to compile a history of the Muromachi bakufu.
鎌倉幕府には正史的な歴史書『吾妻鏡』があり、江戸幕府には同様の意味を持つ『徳川実紀』があったが、室町幕府は政情不安が長期にわたって続いたためにまとまった歴史書が編纂される機会がなかった。